Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

New York City, NY · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$191k-$267kDetected 21 days ago

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About the role

It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

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.
Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
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.
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Software development experience in Golang or Python
5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
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.

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.
We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.
We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.
Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

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.

Reddit is a community of communities.
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.
Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission

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.

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.