Reddit Software Engineer on Reddit's Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for building reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure solutions. Collaborates cross-functionally to deliver high-quality product initiatives.
Responsibilities
Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
End-to-End Delivery: Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability.
Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering decisions.
API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance.
Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently.
In your day-to-day, you will:
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 authentication, authorization and identity.
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
