Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs.
Evangelize AI as a tool.
Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence. Benefits:
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.

Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Gender-Affirming Care
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency:
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.
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 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.
The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,000 USD

It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
In this role, you will define the strategy for how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at Reddit.
You will tackle complex technical challenges while also helping shape our media product strategy to deliver high-quality media experiences globally. Key Responsibilities
Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product
requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.
Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
Communication : Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
This job posting may span more than one career level.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work