Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

Employer listed it 8 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago

Been open since 8 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.

Salary

$191k to $267k per year

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States"
Job description states: "U.S.-based"

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About the role

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

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, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. 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. 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+ 9’s of availability

Help us to optimize Reddit’s 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

Requirements

·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.

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

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Reddit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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