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Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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Job Summary

Senior Engineer on the Core Platform team responsible for scaling Reddit’s Core API Platform, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering high-uptime, high-performance services. Build and scale media-focused API projects used by hundreds of millions of users, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability in a remote-friendly environment.

Location: Chicago

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•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 hundreds of thousands 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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,800 - 267,100 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health Insurance401kPar ParentalCaregiving SupportPaid LeavePaid Volunteer

Key Requirements

•5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
•Software development experience in Golang or Python
•Familiarity with API platform service architectures
•History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
•Excellent communication skills; ability to collaborate with remote teams

Experience:5+ yearsSoftware engineeringDistributed systemsAPI platforms

Skills:CommunicationMentoringLeadershipTeamwork

Languages:English

Tech Stack:GolangPythonAPIsDistributed systemsMedia delivery

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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