Reddit

Software Engineer, Content Platform

Reddit$164K — $229K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable code
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Proficiency in backend programming languages like Go, Python, C++, or Java
  • Experience with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, or Redis
  • Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP
  • Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Prior experience with high-rate platform services and API design is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver software to enhance Reddit's products' availability and efficiency
  • Deep dive into a suite of Go services and monolith Python codebase
  • Implement system-level improvements and complex code modifications
  • Identify and discuss platform gaps for long-term evolution
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and solicit customer feedback
  • Share on-call responsibilities and support reliability monitoring
  • Hone technical and soft skills continuously.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off
Full Job Description
This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. **Who We Are:** The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 - Reddit's monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value. **What You'll Do:** As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also: - Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's products - Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit's monolith Python legacy stack - Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications - Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth - Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback - Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit - Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills **Who You Might Be:** - 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code - BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience - Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java - Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis - Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP - Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams - Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus **Benefits:** - Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs - 401k Match - Family Planning Support - Gender-Affirming Care - Mental Health & Coaching Benefits - Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off - Generous paid Parental Leave - Paid Volunteer time off **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: $164,200-$229,900 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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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