Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests and trust. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of their media infrastructure, focusing on the ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery of video and audio content.
Responsibilities
- Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users
- Accelerate product roadmap: Closely partner with XFNs to identify product opportunities to increase media consumption at Reddit
- Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing
- Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, content understanding, and GenAI
- Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations
- Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company
- Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence
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
- Commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation
- Parental leave
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