Join Reddit as a Senior Software Engineer to build innovative media creation tools and enhance user experiences globally.
Posted by employer 2 weeks ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 weeks ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer for Media Creation at Reddit, the individual will focus on developing backend architecture that enhances how users create and share media content. Key skills include proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python, as well as experience with API design and large-scale distributed systems. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong product mindset and a collaborative spirit, particularly those who thrive in fast-paced environments. The team is characterized by its motivation and agility, aiming to deliver innovative media tools for a vast user base.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 16 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 168 other open roles including Director, Revenue Strategy & Operations (Large Customer Sales), Backend Engineer, IAM, Director, Revenue Strategy & Operations (Large Customer Sales).
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- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,000–$267,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: C++, FFmpeg, GPAC, Go, GraphQL, HTTP.
- 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, Media Creation role at Reddit.
From the original posting
We are seeking a product-minded Senior Software Engineer to help us build the next generation of media creation tools at Reddit. In this role, you will define the backend architecture that powers how Redditors capture, edit, and publish engaging video and image content. You will tackle complex technical challenges to support our media product strategy and deliver high-quality media experiences globally.
Key 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
What Will Set You Apart
- 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
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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