Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

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

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit.
You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth.
experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world. You have:
Software development experience in Golang or Python 5+ years of
experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).

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: $190,800 — $267,100 USD

It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
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.
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.
Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world.
Join us and help build the future of Reddit! You will:
Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
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:
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.