Senior Staff Engineer, Reddit

GraphQL

$232.5-325.5k

GraphQL

Java

C++

Expert level

Remote in US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

$232.5-325.5k

GraphQL

Java

C++

Expert level

Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of technical leadership including both setting and delivering on long-term vision
10+ years of coding in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
Deep expertise designing large-scale user-facing API platforms, especially with GraphQL
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in product, ads, and data science
Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field

What the job involves

You will work closely with teams across Reddit - with Infra peers in Compute, Transport, and Observability to build secure, scalable large-scale software; with Product and Safety teams to enable next-generation user experiences; and with Mobile and Web clients to shape and tune their backend traffic
This is a high-impact role where you will both set the technical direction, and contribute to design, implementation, and operations for the GraphQL roadmap
Contribute to the team and organization’s long term technical strategy
Evolve our GraphQL user platform to enable efficient, performant API contributions
Solve sticky domain challenges like traffic shaping, service federation, and schema governance
Expand GraphQL's architecture to operate concurrently across global datacenters
Work with director+ leadership across Reddit to build and align our long-term platform roadmaps

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Paid volunteer time off
4+ months paid parental leave
Personal and professional development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO)

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

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