Join Reddit as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance our messaging infrastructure for millions of users in a fully remote role.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing Reddit's messaging infrastructure, ensuring it can handle the massive scale of user interactions while maintaining high availability. Key skills include experience with distributed messaging systems, proficiency in languages like Golang or Python, and familiarity with technologies such as Kafka and Kubernetes. This position is ideal for someone with over five years of experience in building internet-scale software, particularly in machine learning storage. The team is dedicated to supporting Reddit's growth and improving user experience across its extensive platform.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- 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 - Messaging 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 - Messaging role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: C++, Golang, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, 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 - Messaging role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed messaging infrastructure problems.
Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Our messaging layer receives 50+ millions of messages/second serving 100GB/s of network traffic. We do this while efficiently storing over a petabyte of live topic data across ~1k brokers. As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth. You’ll do this while maintaining an extremely high availability and reliability bar to ensure that Reddit’s users continue to get a great experience across our entire product portfolio.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Contribute to developing the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
- Refine and maintain our messaging infrastructure to support the asynchronous communication of services supporting hundreds of millions of users.
- Own the infrastructure (managed and self-hosted) that supports produce and consume requests along with the necessary tooling and automation to efficiently operate the infrastructure.
Who you might be:
- 5+ years of experience building internet-scale software, preferably with a focus on machine learning storage infrastructure.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java
- Experience working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!
- Hands-on experience implementing features, optimizations, and bug fixes to distributed messaging systems.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, machine learning, and product.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
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