Reddit - Senior Web Engineer, Web Platform
Requirements
• 6+ years software engineering experience, with experience in working cross-functionally to lead projects from start to finish with end user impact. • Deep experience with modern web platform engineering: • TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, bundlers (e.g., Vite, Rollup, Webpack), and Node performance observability tools. • Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular or Lit. • A past track record of quality: • Enabling testing culture (unit/integration tests, local/automated testing, load and performance testing) • Improving resiliency and fault tolerance of systems • Profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths. • You embody Reddit’s core value of Evolve: Only by continually improving and learning will we succeed. • You treat ambiguity and hard problems as learning opportunities, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and our platform.
Responsibilities
• Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world. • Build with impact: • Own the web stack: Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex, cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences. • Own the web stack: • Collaborate broadly: Partner with feature teams, infrastructure, safety, security and other platform teams to make Reddit’s web experience fast, stable, and accessible worldwide. • Collaborate broadly: • Multiply others: Mentor and coach other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and documentation, raising the bar for web engineering across Reddit. • Multiply others: • Shape the platform: Be a thought partner in our web platform strategy, informing our roadmap for performance as a feature, observability, and developer experience. • Shape the platform:
Benefits
• Comprehensive Health benefits • Workspace benefits for your home office • Personal & Professional development funds • Family Planning Support • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off • 4+ months paid Parental Leave • Paid Volunteer time off • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave • Pay Transparency: • Pay Transparency: • This job posting may span more than one career level. • In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/. • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. • The base salary range for this position is: • $190,800 - $267,100 USD • In 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. • During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
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