Senior Software Engineer - DevX
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RedditSoftware Engineering
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary190,800 - 267,100 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience
- Required Skills
- GraphQLKubernetesGogRPCCI/CDRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength.
- 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
- Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
- Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC.
- Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers.
- Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows.
- A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction.
- Experience mentoring engineers and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
- Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
- Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
- Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
- Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
- Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.
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