Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- New York, NY
- Salary
- $190,800–$267,100 / yr
- Posted
- 81 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live 2 days ago
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
Market check
Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$177,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $229k versus about $163k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Most-posted roles
- Software Engineer 19
- Data Scientist 8
- Machine Learning Engineer 5
- Frontend Engineer 4
- Machine Learning Systems Engineer 4
At a glance
TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform, you will join the team responsible for the Core API Platform, which facilitates millions of requests and serves as the source of truth for features like listings, posts, comments, and media. In this role, you will act as a technical coach and mentor to junior engineers while designing innovative solutions to scale the platform. You will build, deliver, and operate services capable of handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with high availability. Your daily work involves developing platform API projects and optimizing the media experience for a global user base. The role requires expertise in Golang or Python, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and familiarity with API platform service architectures. You will also focus on building clean, maintainable code to improve media performance across various stages of the stack.
What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?
Median $224000 from 203 postings across 41 companies.
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 availability 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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