Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
CA$190,800 - CA$267,100 / year
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Description
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to deepen our team's knowledge in ingestion, processing, storage, and distribution of media at global scale. You’ll help us build, operate, and scale the media platform that powers Reddit for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to build Reddit’s next generation media platform and to ensure all of our systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with your team to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization and to fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth.
Additionally, as part of The Core Systems & Libraries team you’ll design, build, and run many critical foundational services, platforms, and libraries (media and non-media) that all engineering teams at Reddit rely on to serve our users and partners.
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 millions 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.
You have:
- Strong software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go or similar
- 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.
- Experienced with GraphQL, gRPC, Thrift, Protobuf, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- 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.
- Familiarity with media processing and global media distribution; image processing and delivery technologies such as image scaling, cropping, and image formats like progressive JPEG, WebP, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1), and distribution from user origin, through CDN, to the user experience.
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
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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/.
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Benefits
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- 401(k)
- stock options
- parental leave
- professional development
About this role
The Core Platform team at Reddit operates the API infrastructure that powers the site's core features—listings, posts, comments, media—handling millions of requests daily at massive scale. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'd split your focus between hands-on platform development and mentorship. You'd design solutions for scaling Reddit's systems to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with 99.999% uptime, while coaching junior engineers and collaborating across the organization to shape the technical roadmap.
This role demands deep expertise in distributed systems at scale—ideally five or more years working on mission-critical infrastructure—plus proficiency in Golang or Python. You should have a track record building clean, maintainable code and specific experience optimizing media delivery across the stack, from backend systems to end-user experience. Strong communication matters here; you'll need to translate complex technical topics for both engineering and non-technical audiences in a fully in-office environment in San Francisco.
The position offers a base salary of $190,800–$267,100, equity in restricted stock units, and a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, 401(k) matching, flexible vacation, parental leave, and professional development support. Note that this is listed as a volunteer role, which may warrant clarification with the recruiter.
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