Senior Staff Engineer, Reddit
GraphQL
$232.5-325.5k
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$232.5-325.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
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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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
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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