Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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Reddit · San Francisco, CA

$191K–$267K/yrFull-timeOn-siteToday

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Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs401k with Employer MatchGlobal Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving supportFamily Planning SupportGender-Affirming CareMental Health & Coaching BenefitsFlexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time OffGenerous Paid Parental LeavePay Transparency:This job posting may span more than one career level.The base salary range for this position is:$190,800 - $267,100 USDIn 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.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 aHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insurance401(k)Paid time offRemote work optionsFlexible scheduleEquity / stock optionsParental leave

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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 126 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.

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