Join Reddit as a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable solutions impacting millions of users worldwide.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Role intensity
70% hands-on coding
AI in the day-to-day
Interviews may be recorded and summarized by AI, but no specific AI tools are mentioned for engineering tasks.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team, the individual will focus on developing and optimizing APIs that support the platform's extensive user interactions and media delivery. Proficiency in Golang or Python, along with experience in large-scale distributed systems, is essential for success in this position. This role is ideal for seasoned engineers who are adept at mentoring others and thrive in a collaborative, remote environment. The team is pivotal in shaping Reddit's growth trajectory, impacting millions of users globally.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze June 26, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 4 other locations at Reddit: Los Angeles, CA, Remote - United States, Chicago, IL, New York City, NY.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 67% of 146 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,958 across 62 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 40.3% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Golang appears in 7.1% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Golang, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform role at Reddit.
From the original posting
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to deepen our team's knowledge in ingestion, processing, storage, and distribution of media at global scale. You’ll help us build, operate, and scale the media platform that powers Reddit for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to build Reddit’s next generation media platform and to ensure all of our systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with your team to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization and to fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth.
Additionally, as part of The Core Systems & Libraries team you’ll design, build, and run many critical foundational services, platforms, and libraries (media and non-media) that all engineering teams at Reddit rely on to serve our users and partners.
Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
You will:
- 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 millions 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.
You have:
- Strong software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go or similar
- 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.
- Experienced with GraphQL, gRPC, Thrift, Protobuf, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- 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.
- Familiarity with media processing and global media distribution; image processing and delivery technologies such as image scaling, cropping, and image formats like progressive JPEG, WebP, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as video compression standards (H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1), and distribution from user origin, through CDN, to the user experience.
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