Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit
GraphQL
$190.8-267.1k
+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190.8-267.1k
+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems
- Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go)
- Experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company's strategy
- Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP)
- High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization
- Specific GraphQL backend experience is a plus
- Experience structuring and implementing complex data models is a plus
What the job involves
- GraphQL is Reddit's first-party API layer, providing client access to Reddit's rich dataset and driving the next generation of user experience
- GraphQL provides product engineers across Reddit clear interfaces, a powerful and flexible execution engine, and world-class developer ergonomics
- Our team's mission is to develop the next generation of foundational GraphQL infrastructure, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools for contributors to create and expand GraphQL schema
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure
- Design, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency
- Investigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the GraphQL platform
- Guide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader
- Share on-call responsibilities with the GraphQL team
- Some of our present and future challenges include:
- Driving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture
- Deploying GraphQL to operate concurrently across global datacenters
- Expanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions
- Building deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture
- Tuning our stack for latency, resilience, and scale
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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