Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, the individual will lead the design and evolution of the company's media infrastructure, focusing on the ingestion, processing, and delivery of video and audio content. Key skills include expertise in distributed systems and microservices, along with strong communication abilities to influence technical direction. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a background in technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration. The role also emphasizes mentorship and the integration of AI tools to enhance media experiences.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 13, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 78% of 27 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list distributed systems we track (median $190,000 across 14 companies). See distributed systems salary trends
- distributed systems appears in 10.9% of 302 comparable staff backend roles in United States; Microservices appears in 4.3% of 302 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff iOS Engineer, Media Foundation role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Microservices, distributed systems.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff iOS Engineer, Media Foundation role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across all devices. We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API. This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale.
This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.
What You Will Do
- Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users.
- Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance.
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features that our users will love.
- Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
- Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs.
Qualifications
- At least 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.
- In-depth knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.
- Strong understanding of Core Media for timing and synchronization and Core Video for buffer handling, essential for custom playback and real-time video manipulation.
- Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as working knowledge of streaming frameworks and CDN integration for optimized video delivery.
- Familiarity with reactive frameworks (RxSwift, Combine)
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
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.
Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.