Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

Building deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture.
Design, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency.
Investigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale.
Guide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader. Share on-call

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
GraphQL is Reddit's first-party API layer, providing client access to Reddit's rich dataset and driving the next generation of user experiences.
GraphQL provides product engineers across Reddit clear interfaces, a powerful and flexible execution engine, and world-class developer ergonomics. Our team's mission is to develop the next generation of foundational GraphQL infrastructure, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools for contributors to create and expand GraphQL schema.
Driving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture.
Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure.
experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems.
Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go). •
Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).
Specific GraphQL backend experience is a plus. •
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
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