Backend Engineer, Reddit
Core Platform
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Multiple years of professional software development experience in a “systems” language like golang, Python, c, c++, rust, java
- 3+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
- Great communication skills. You know when to speak up and when to ask for help. You can raise complex technical issues with XFN peers in a way that is easily understood and acted upon
- Familiarity with service architectures and building API platforms for customers
- History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
What the job involves
- 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
- The mission of the Core Platform team is to develop and maintain a set of core backend systems that many product development teams can leverage
- These systems provide clear interfaces, low latencies, and high uptime so that product engineers can focus on the product
- Service layers that Reddit rests upon. Define and maintain the core data models that Reddit uses, and allow all the different parts of Reddit to work smoothly together at scale
- Designing an architecture that is performant, stable, secure, and low cost
- Build foundational services that will define the future architecture of Reddit; handling millions of requests per second for tens of millions of users around the world every day
- As a Backend Engineer on this team, you’ll be a critical part of the team building some of the most central systems at Reddit
- 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!
- 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 millions of transactions per second at 4+ 9’s of availability and tens of millions of users per day
Our take
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.
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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
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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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