Software Engineer

reddit Inc.
New York, NY, United States
13 days ago
Apply on job-boards.greenhouse.io
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$190,800.0 - $267,100.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Service-Oriented Architecture Software Engineering Api Management Golang

Requirements

  • Software development experience in Golang or Python
  • 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
  • Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
  • History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack.

Benefits & conditions

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave

LI-Remote

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

About the company

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.

As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world.

Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

You will:

  • Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
  • Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
  • Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
  • Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
  • Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on job-boards.greenhouse.io
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:17 min

Storyblok engineering context and tech stack overview

Sebastian Gierlinger Sebastian Gierlinger ¡ World Congress 2025

4:27 min

Running custom code and managing API security policies

Sander ten Brinke Sander ten Brinke ¡ World Congress 2024

1:29 min

Overcoming challenges in AI-assisted distributed system development

Przemysław Ładyński Przemysław Ładyński · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:08 min

Building solutions with open source GoLang infrastructure tools

Jad Wahab ¡ LIVE

6:16 min

Event-driven Golang backend architecture and cloud deployment

Irina Branovic Irina Branovic ¡ World Congress 2026 Europe

1:06 min

Developer experience and project variety at scale

Alexandra Petri ¡ World Congress 2023

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all