Reddit

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Internal Tooling (Build and Deployment Platform)

Reddit$190K — $267K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-stack application development experience
  • Strong frontend development skills with experience in component-based frameworks (e.g., React)
  • Proficient in backend development, API design, and system architecture
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and progressive delivery technologies
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and containers (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS)
  • Excellent communication skills for collaboration and alignment
  • Strong ownership mentality and initiative-driven work ethic

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop user-friendly web UI for deployment platforms
  • Build and maintain backend systems for end-to-end product experiences
  • Define clean API boundaries for frontend and backend collaboration
  • Collaborate on orchestrating deployment workflows and rollback strategies
  • Translate complex infrastructure concepts into intuitive user interfaces
  • Conduct user interviews to improve developer experience across Reddit
  • Mentor team members through code reviews and knowledge sharing

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs tailored to lifestyle needs
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
Full Job Description
About the Job

The Deployment Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of the web UI for our build and deployment platform. In this role, you'll craft a cohesive, intuitive user experience that enables engineers across Reddit to build, test, and ship software safely and confidently to a globally distributed cloud ecosystem.

Our team owns continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the underlying systems that power build and deployment workflows. We're looking for an engineer who operates at the intersection of frontend engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure, and developer experience.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
  • Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack, with a focus on creating reusable, maintainable UI components and polished frontends that scale with the platform
  • Contribute to backend systems to deliver cohesive, end-to-end product experiences
  • Define and enforce clean API boundaries between frontend and backend systems
  • Collaborate with teammates to build a platform that supports:
    • Orchestrating complex deployment workflows
    • Progressive rollouts across clusters and regions
    • Automated rollback of failed deployments
    • Observability into deployment health and performance
  • Translate complex infrastructure technologies and concepts (e.g., Kubernetes, Argo Rollouts, deployment policies) into intuitive, user-friendly interfaces
  • Engage directly with engineers across Reddit-conducting user interviews, gathering feedback, and deeply understanding developer workflows-to shape an opinionated "paved path" for releases
  • Raise the bar for full-stack engineering across the team through code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotation and contribute to the reliability of our platform
  • Continuously grow your technical and non-technical skills

You Have:
  • 5+ years of experience building full-stack applications, with strong frontend expertise
  • Deep proficiency in modern frontend development; experience with component-based frameworks (e.g., React, Lit) is valuable, but strong fundamentals matter most
  • Solid backend experience and understanding of API design, service boundaries, and system architecture
  • Experience with CI/CD, build systems (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Drone) and progressive delivery tools (e.g., Argo Workflows/Rollouts/CD, Kayenta)
  • Familiarity with Temporal, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
  • Excellent communication skills that you employ to drive alignment, to navigate tradeoffs, to influence decisions and priorities, and to empower others
  • A high degree of empathy, curiosity, and humility, with a passion for improving both developer experience and Reddit's reliability
  • A strong sense of ownership. You take initiative, lead projects end-to-end, and go beyond your immediate scope to ensure successful outcomes and drive impact across the platform
  • A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined

Bonuses:
  • Experience on developer experience, infrastructure, or platform teams
  • Experience building systems for CI/CD, progressive delivery, or other internal developer platforms
  • Experience conducting user research or gathering feedback from technical users
  • Experience with implementing UI/UX design yourself and comfort with design software such as Figma
  • Experience with backend-adjacent technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, or Go
  • Familiarity with multi-cluster or multi-region deployment strategies
  • Interest in exploring and integrating emerging technologies (e.g., generative AI) to improve developer workflows

Benefits:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave


Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800-$267,100 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

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About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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