The Core Platform team at Reddit is seeking a Staff Engineer to develop and design innovative solutions for scaling the platform's APIs. As a technical coach and mentor, you'll work with junior engineers to build high-performance systems that support hundreds of millions of users worldwide. You'll be responsible for building and delivering services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability. With expertise in Golang or Python, API platform service architectures, and media delivery, you'll partner with teams in a fully remote environment to optimize Reddit's media experience. This role offers comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for growth and development.

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.

As a Staff Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll build and scale the exciting features and services needed to create real-time experiences and spark connections, which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

You will:

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.

You have:

Software development experience in Golang or Python
10+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Media delivery expertise including experience with media quality of experience metrics and have successfully optimized media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the media stack

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