# Senior Software Engineer - DevX **Company**: Reddit **Location**: Remote - United States **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $190,800-$267,100 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7950520?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_856e7d50-b68 ## Description We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our DevX team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building the platforms, services, systems, and workflows that improve how Reddit engineers develop software. You will work across backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-powered workflows to solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers across the company. Some of our present and future challenges include: - Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling, including agentic and AI-powered workflows. - Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering. - Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier. - Scaling our infrastructure, services, APIs, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization. - Understanding internal users' needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements. - Building integrations across Reddit's existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems. - Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will draw on your backend, infrastructure, and platform engineering experience to build developer tooling that is scalable, reliable, easy to use, and valuable to a growing engineering organization. You will work directly with engineers across Reddit to understand their pain points, shape solutions, incorporate feedback, and communicate the impact of the team's work. Responsibilities: - Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback. - Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit. - Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day. - Lead high-impact projects across Reddit's developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs. - Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit's existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems. - Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale. - Improve the team's tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability. - Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit's engineering organization. Requirements: - 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength. - 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services. - Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems. - Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC. - Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers. - Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery. - Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity. - A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery. - A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs. - A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working in developer experience, developer productivity, internal platforms, or developer tooling. - Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users. - Experience building or extending CI/CD systems, and partnering with teams that own build, test, and release workflows. - Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server or large-scale source control platforms. - Experience with Python. - Experience measuring the impact of platform or developer productivity work through experimentation, measured rollouts, analytics, reliability metrics, or qualitative feedback. ## Skills ### Required - Go - backend - infrastructure - platform engineering - APIs - GraphQL - REST - HTTP - gRPC - Kubernetes - cloud providers - AI-powered developer tools - developer productivity ### Nice to have - developer experience - internal platforms - developer tooling - CI/CD systems - GitHub Enterprise Server - source control platforms - Python - experimentation - measured rollouts - analytics - reliability metrics - qualitative feedback --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7950520?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)