Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of its media infrastructure.

In this role, you will define the strategy for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video and audio content at Reddit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of Reddit's global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
• 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 supporting media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.
• Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of media services, and define strict SLOs/SLAs for media operations.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams, translating complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Leverage Modern Tooling: Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding.

Qualifications:

• 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.

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