# Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$267,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join the Media Foundation team, responsible for delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences across all platforms. As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will drive technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

Responsibilities:

- Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users.

- Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance.

- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features.

- Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team.

- Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise.

- 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift.

- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.

- Excellent communication skills.

- A track record of leading projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations.

- Entrepreneurial spirit.

Nice To Have:

- Knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities.

- Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols.

- Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components.

- A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps.

- Experience building robust, clean, and scalable APIs/components.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.

- 401k with Employer Match.

- Global Benefit programs.

- Family Planning Support.

- Gender-Affirming Care.

- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.

- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.

- Generous Paid Parental Leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Swift
- iOS development
- video player development
- media infrastructure
- CDN integration

### Nice to have
- AVFoundation
- HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
- MPEG-DASH
- MP4
- video player performance optimization

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