Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $190,800–$267,100 / yr
Posted: 81 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $229k

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About Reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Platform team, you will serve as a technical coach and mentor while ensuring high uptime and performance for systems that power Reddit's core features. You will design innovative solutions to scale the platform, build API projects used across the organization, and develop services capable of handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with high availability. Your daily work involves building and scaling a media platform to optimize the user experience. The role requires expertise in Golang or Python, along with experience in large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems and API platform service architectures. You will also focus on backend media delivery, optimizing performance across various stages of the stack while writing clean, maintainable code and communicating complex technical topics effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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Skills

Golang Python Distributed Systems API Scalability Media Delivery

What you'll do

Design and develop innovative solutions to scale Reddit's core infrastructure.
Build and maintain platform API projects that support the entire organization.
Mentor and coach junior engineers on the team to achieve technical goals.
Build and operate services capable of handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.
Ensure high uptime and performance for mission-critical distributed systems.
Optimize the media experience and delivery for millions of global users.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in Golang or Python.

What we're looking for

Experience in software development using Golang or Python.
5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
Expertise in media delivery from backend systems to the user.
Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery across different stack stages.
Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Excellent communication skills for collaborating in a remote environment with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers.

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