Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
Job Location:
Los Angeles, CA - USA
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Job Summary
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 media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.
As a Senior 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 work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform 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
- 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.
- Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
- 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.
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 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. 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 salary range for this position is:
$190800 - $267100 USD
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
