Senior Software Engineer (Core Platform)

About this role

• As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. 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
• You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world
• 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

### Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits- Software development experience in Golang or Python
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• 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
• Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems