Senior Software Engineer, Reddit

Developer Experience Infrastructure

$190.8-267.1k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

Job no longer available

Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Job no longer available

$190.8-267.1k

+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy
3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems
3+ years of Go experience
3+ years experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
Strong experience with Kubernetes
A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org
Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality
History of mentorship and technical leadership

What the job involves

The mission of the Developer Experience team is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable
As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be immediately responsible for building and driving a vision for our developer experience in multiple programming languages
You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our frameworks and developer tooling are cohesive and provide maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization
You’ll look for ways to bring in good ideas from other peers and also for opportunities to engage with org, presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments
Building a strong cloud development story for the entire company
Re-envisioning our service frameworks and tooling integrations to increase developer efficiency, confidence, and service reliability
Scaling our infrastructure and processes to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization
Creating on-demand environments for development and testing at scale
Building release infrastructure that makes CI and CD easy
Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs and identifying opportunities for improvements
Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers

Our take

Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.

The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.

Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
Personal & professional development funds
Paid volunteer time off
Workspace & home office benefits

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO & Founder)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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