Senior Software Engineer, Reddit
Developer Experience
$190.8-267.1k
+Equity (RSUs)
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
+Equity (RSUs)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy
- 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years of Go experience
- 3+ years experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
- Experience with Kubernetes
- A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
- A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality
- History of mentorship and technical leadership
What the job involves
- The mission of the Developer Experience team is to design, develop, and support tools and processes that make common developer workflows efficient and reliable
- As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be immediately responsible for building and driving a vision for our developer experience in multiple programming languages
- You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our frameworks and developer tooling are cohesive and provide maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization
- You’ll look for ways to bring in good ideas from other peers and also for opportunities to engage with org, presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments
- Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals
- Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around developer experience, including service frameworks, development environments, version control, CI and deployment tooling
- Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors
- Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering
- Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities
- Some of our present and future challenges include:
- Building a strong cloud development story for the entire company
- Re-envisioning our service frameworks and tooling integrations to increase developer efficiency, confidence, and service reliability
- Scaling our infrastructure and processes to serve a growing Reddit Engineering organization
- Creating on-demand environments for development and testing at scale
- Building release infrastructure that makes CI and CD easy
- Building a solid understanding of customer’s needs and identifying opportunities for improvements
- Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies (e.g. Generative AI) to solve problems for our developers
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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