Staff Engineer - Core Platform - Remote

Overview

Reddit is a community of communities. 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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

In Short

• Join the Core Platform team at Reddit.
• Be a technical coach and mentor.
• Ensure high uptime and strong performance of systems.
• Build and scale features for real-time experiences.
• Work with a fully remote team.
• 10+ years of experience required.
• Expertise in media delivery and CDN technologies.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• Build clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Impact hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Requirements

• Software development experience in Golang or Python.
• 10+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Media delivery expertise including experience with media quality of experience metrics.
• Working knowledge of CDN technologies (Fastly, Cloudfare, Cloudfront).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits.
• 401k Matching.
• Workspace benefits for your home office.
• Personal & Professional development funds.
• Family Planning Support.
• Flexible Vacation and Reddit Global Wellness Days.
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave.
• Paid Volunteer time off.