Job Summary:
Reddit, Inc. is a community-driven platform known for its diverse and authentic conversations. The Senior Software Engineer on the Core Platform team will mentor junior engineers while developing and optimizing APIs that support Reddit's extensive user base and facilitate millions of API requests.
Responsibilities:
โข Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
โข Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
โข Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
โข Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9โs of availability
โข Help us to optimize Redditโs media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Software development experience in Golang or Python
โข 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
โข Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
โข Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
โข History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
โข 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.