Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community-driven platform built around shared interests, conversations, and user-generated content. Reddit is seeking a product-minded Senior Software Engineer to define backend architecture for media creation tools and build scalable systems that help users capture, edit, and publish video and image content.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love
- Own backend infrastructure for media creation, building fast, maintainable APIs that seamlessly integrate with our frontend clients to provide a magical, real-time creator experience
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch
- Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers
- Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
- Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs
- We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products
Skills
- 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++)
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
- Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Redis
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
- Excellent communication skills
- You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven track record of strong product thinking, with experience translating complex user workflows (like video editing timelines or AI generation tools) into robust backend state management
- Experience building asynchronous media processing pipelines and scalable event-driven microservices
- Familiar with background data fetching
- Strong data analysis skills using SQL
- Hands-on expertise with tools like FFMPEG, GPAC and similar media frameworks for processing, modifying, and manipulating media streams
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
- Depending on the position offered, eligibility to receive a commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation, and parental leave
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