Reddit - Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
Responsibilities
• Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions. • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: • End-to-End Delivery: Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability. • End-to-End Delivery: • Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering decisions. • Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: • API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance. • API & System Performance: • Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently. • Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: • Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals. • Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around authentication, authorization and identity. • Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors • Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering. • Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities • Who you might be: • Who you might be: • 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure. • Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java • Experience with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, IC/CD, AWS, GCP) • Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems. • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product. • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Benefits
• 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 • Family Planning 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: • $190,000—$267,000 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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