Staff Software Engineer Media Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer Media Infrastructure
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$ 217000 - 303900
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Job Description
The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings enabling posts comments and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.
As a Staff Engineer on this team youll be a technical coach and mentor. Youll 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. Youll build and scale the exciting features and services needed to create realtime experiences and spark connections which will fuel the next wave of Reddits growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. 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 hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5 9s of availability
- Help us to optimize Reddits media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
You have:
- Software development experience in Golang or Python
- 10 years of experience with largescale missioncritical distributed systems.
- Media delivery expertise including experience with media quality of experience metrics and have successfully optimized media performance scalability and delivery by improving different stages of the media stack
- Working knowledge of CDN technologies (Fastly Cloudfare Cloudfront) to optimize video delivery
- Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
- History of building clean maintainable and welltested code
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them! & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4 months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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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 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 provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all USbased 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$217000 $303900 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
