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Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 501-1,000Since 2005H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

68 days ago

Salary

$217K - $303K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsMicroservices

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Reddit, Inc.

• Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users. • Accelerate product roadmap: Closely partner with XFNs to identify product opportunities to increase media consumption at Reddit. • Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing. • Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, content understanding, and GenAI. • Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations. • Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company. • Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool.

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence.

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

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