Senior Software Engineer - DevX
Remote - United States · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$191k-$267kDetected 12 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsGitKubernetesCI/CDPlatform EngineeringGraphQLRESTA/B TestingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible, creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write, test, review, ship, and operate software.
- You'll work across backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-powered workflows to solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers across the company.
- We're looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, infrastructure experience, product judgment, and a real interest in developer experience and developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
- Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
- Lead high-impact projects across Reddit's developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit's existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
- Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
- Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit's engineering organization.
- 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
- Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers.
- Family Planning Support
Requirements
- Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
- Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server or large-scale source control platforms.
- Experience with Python.
Skills
- Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.
- Scaling our infrastructure, services, APIs, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization.
- Understanding internal users' needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.