Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation

🕒 August 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $267k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Reddit, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Define backend architecture for Reddit’s media creation tools • Build infrastructure for capturing, editing, and publishing video and image content • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering counterparts • Build fast, maintainable APIs integrated with frontend clients for real-time creator experiences • Contribute to technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch • Participate with a team of engineers • Improve developer workflows and recommend engineering best practices • Mentor junior engineers • Balance development speed with product quality and reliability • Build brand-new products and features supporting Reddit’s global media product strategy

🎯 Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience • 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems • 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++) • Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift basics, and designing and implementing maintainable APIs • Experience with distributed caching layers and distributed large scale data storage systems like Redis • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks and deliver projects on schedule • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment • Experience translating complex user workflows into robust backend state management • Experience building asynchronous media processing pipelines and scalable event-driven microservices • Familiarity with background data fetching • Strong data analysis skills using SQL • Hands-on expertise with FFMPEG, GPAC, and similar media frameworks

🏖️ 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 • Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • AI interview recording opt-out opportunity