Job Summary:
Reddit, Inc. is a community of communities that facilitates open conversations online. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Platform team to develop and design innovative solutions, mentor junior engineers, and optimize media experiences for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
• Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
• Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
• Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
• Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Software development experience in Golang or Python
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user. Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack.
Company:
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.