Join Reddit as a Principal Software Engineer to enhance its multi-cloud compute infrastructure with a focus on reliability and performance.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 20 minutes ago
Last verified on the company career page 20 minutes ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure
- Design, write, and deliver software to improve availability and scalability
- Guide technical direction of the compute platform
- Automate development processes
- Mentor backend developers
Must have
- 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software
- 8+ years experience with cloud infrastructure systems
Nice to have
- Experience influencing larger organizations on technical direction
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Software development experience in Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Principal Software Engineer for Infrastructure at Reddit will focus on enhancing the multi-cloud compute infrastructure through software development and operational troubleshooting. Key skills include expertise in Go and Python, along with experience in cloud systems like Kubernetes and AWS. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over a decade of experience in internet-scale software and a strong background in infrastructure roles. The Infrastructure team emphasizes collaboration and mentorship, making it a fitting environment for those who thrive in cross-functional settings.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 13, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page November 13, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 95% of 20 comparable principal backend roles in United States we track (median $214,500 across 11 companies).
- AWS appears in 24.2% of 33 comparable principal backend roles in United States; Kubernetes appears in 18.2% of 33 comparable principal backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $286,700–$401,400 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GCE, Go, Kubernetes, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets principal-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Infrastructure organization has the mission of building and delivering the compute orchestration environment, storage and data systems, and essential platform services behind all of Reddit.
The Infrastructure organization is looking to hire a backend software engineer to work collaboratively on a team dedicated to building out Reddit’s multi-cloud compute infrastructure. This is a high impact role where you will contribute to design, implementation, and operations for one of the largest sites in the world. The Infrastructure team’s mission is to provide a platform for teams to independently and effectively run their compute workloads in a performant, reliable, and secure way.
The position is a mix of software engineering and devops; a lot of the time, we are writing software to improve our compute infrastructure. But there is a substantial amount of troubleshooting and analysis to understand the real problems we face as we scale, and our customer’s workloads change.
What you’ll do:
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
- Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products in Go and sometimes Python.
- Guide and contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the compute platform
- Automate critical aspects of the development process such as service creation and management, as well as critical infrastructure operations.
- Mentor backend developers across the company.
- Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems
Who you might be:
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- 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure roles.
- 8+ years experience with cloud infrastructure systems is a plus (Kubernetes, AWS / GCE ecosystems).
- Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people think and how they interact with software at scale.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
Pay Transparency:
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
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