Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community of communities and is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. The Core Platform team is responsible for the APIs that build listings, enabling posts, comments, and media, and the Senior Engineer will mentor junior engineers while ensuring high uptime and performance of these systems.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation, and parental leave
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