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Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

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Job Summary

Lead the technical architecture of Reddit's media infrastructure, shaping ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery of video and audio content. Drive low-latency, high-availability media pipelines, collaborate with ML/AI teams, set engineering standards, and mentor multiple teams while leveraging AI tooling to accelerate design and development.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
•Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
•Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.
•Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
•Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 217,000 - 303,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health Insurance401kParental LeaveFamily PlanningPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer
•Distributed Systems Expertise: proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
•Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence technical direction
•Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence
•Experience leading architecture and strategy for media processing and delivery pipelines

Experience:8+ yearsMedia infrastructureVideoAudioDistributed systemsMicroservices

Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:Distributed systemsMicroservicesCDNTranscodingAIGenAIVideoCloudAPIs

Company Brief

Operates Reddit, a large online community and discussion platform where users submit content, comment, and vote across topic-based communities (subreddits); monetizes via advertising, premium subscriptions, and awards.

Industry: Digital Media

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2005

Website LinkedIn

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