# Staff Software Engineer - Content Platform

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$303,900 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Content Platform team within the Infrastructure organisation. This high-impact role involves leading the development of Content Platform, focusing on improving operational posture, and harmonizing feedback from customers.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit's products in Go and sometimes Python.

- Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit's monolith legacy stack.

- Make system-level improvements, enhancements, and implement complex code modifications.

- Own the design & evolution of the platform and build for the next 4+ years of continued scale and growth of Reddit.

- Identify gaps in current designs and lead redesigns of the platform to improve developer velocity and enable Reddit growth.

- Work collaboratively with other software engineers from Infra and Product orgs.

- Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate storage capabilities into broader storage infrastructure and use cases across Reddit.

- Mentor and guide other backend engineers across the company.

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale software, distributed systems, or platforms used by other developers.

- BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.

- Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Golang, Python, C++, Java.

- Prior experience and capability with scaled, high-rate platform services, and API design.

- Demonstrated history of technical leadership, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver impactful, high-quality solutions.

- Exceptional communication skills with a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

- Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) Kubernetes, gRPC, Cassandra, TiDB, Redis is a huge plus.

**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.

**Pay Transparency:** The base salary range for this position is: $217,000-$303,900 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Kubernetes
- gRPC
- Cassandra
- TiDB
- Redis
- C++
- Java

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