Senior Software Engineer – DevX

🕒 July 10

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Reddit, Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Reddit, Inc. is a social media platform that acts as a hub for thousands of communities, where users can engage in diverse conversations ranging from breaking news to niche interests. It enables users to post, comment, and vote on content, fostering a vibrant online community. Millions of people globally connect and share their passions on Reddit, creating a dynamic environment for authentic human interaction.

📋 Description

• Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback. • Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit. • Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day. • Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs. • Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems. • Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale. • Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability. • Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength. • 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services. • Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems. • Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC. • Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers. • Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery. • Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity. • A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery. • A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs. • A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

🏖️ 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