Staff Software Engineer
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This role pays more than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $172,500–$249,062 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $211k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform joins the developer platform team to build and maintain the underlying infrastructure for external developers. This role focuses on creating a highly available, reliable, and low-latency backend at internet scale while driving the company's Storage as a service strategy, including SQL database features. The engineer will participate in the entire development cycle, including technical design, code reviews, and product specification feedback. To succeed, the candidate must possess expertise in Go, TypeScript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes. They will serve as a technical leader responsible for executing large-scale projects, troubleshooting daily issues, and mentoring other engineers. The role addresses the technical challenge of providing robust infrastructure and scalable tools to support external developers building applications on the platform while ensuring high performance across complex systems.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.
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