Staff DevPlatform Software Engineer, Reddit
$217-303k
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$217-303k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about making a significant impact and thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, then we're excited to welcome you to our team!
- 7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms
- Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects as well as day-to-day troubleshooting
- Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes experience
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers as well as leading by example strong software engineering best practices
- Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love
- Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, everyone needs to act like a startup CEO. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with a unique blend of skills and a wealth of experience to contribute to our innovative endeavors
- In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge backend for the developer platform
- You'll collaborate with colleagues from various backgrounds and specialties, harnessing our collective strengths to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions tailored to our business's multifaceted needs
- Building a platform that is highly available, extremely reliable, low on latency, and at internet scale
- Creating and driving our Storage as a service strategy
- Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences
- Creating a collaborative and supportive team with a strong sense of ownership
- Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform
- Build new features for external developers such as SQL db as a service
- Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
- Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future
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
57% employee growth in 12 months
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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