Reddit Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation at Reddit designs and builds backend infrastructure for media creation tools. Collaborates cross-functionally to deliver scalable APIs and supports the full development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
Own backend infrastructure for media creation, building fast, maintainable APIs that seamlessly integrate with our frontend clients to provide a magical, real-time creator experience.
Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs.
We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.
Qualification
BS degree in Computer Science5+ years of hands-onExperienced with GraphQLStrong organizational skillsExcellent communication skillsWhat Will Set You ApartFamiliar with background data fetchingStrong data analysis skills using SQL
Required
BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++).
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Redis.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
What Will Set You Apart
Proven track record of strong product thinking, with experience translating complex user workflows (like video editing timelines or AI generation tools) into robust backend state management.
Experience building asynchronous media processing pipelines and scalable event-driven microservices.
Familiar with background data fetching.
Strong data analysis skills using SQL.
Preferred
Proven product thinking translating complex user workflows into backend state management
Experience building asynchronous media processing pipelines
