Senior Software Engineer, Search
Remote - United States
Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.Â
Team Description:
The mission of the Search Experiences team is to empower users to safely navigate, find, and engage with the breadth and depth of Reddit; a team that is used by â
of all Redditors daily! This includes enabling product development teams across the company, and serving as the client access layer for all of Reddit's rich dataset while driving the next generation of user experiences. This layer provides consistent and clear interfaces, strong contracts, and world-class developer ergonomics so that client and other engineers can focus on the product.
Role Description:
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Search Experiences team, youâll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with other technical leaders to build a longer term roadmap to match the needs of an ever evolving search ecosystem. Youâll also look for opportunities to engage with the search, GraphQL, and ML community at large, presenting and sharing Redditâs accomplishments within the industry, and bringing in good ideas from other peers.
Responsibilities:
- Building new GraphQL endpoints for external public facing consumers
- Scaling out internal ranking tools to deliver the best, most relevant results
- Building out new internal APIs that power ML driven consumer UIs
- Designing an architecture that is performant, stable, secure, and low cost.
- Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Redditâs goals.
- Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture.
- Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit engineering.
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Java, Ruby.
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Benefits/Perks401(k) matching 401(k) program 4+ months paid Parental Leave Commission Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits Dental Equity Equity in the form of restricted stock units Family Planning Family Planning Support Flexible Vacation Fully remote Generous time off Global Wellness Global Wellness Days Healthcare Healthcare Benefits Medical Medical, dental, and vision insurance Paid parental leave Paid Volunteer time off Parental leave Pay Transparency Personal & Professional development funds Professional development funds Reddit Global Wellness Reddit Global Wellness Days Wide range of benefits Workspace Workspace benefits Workspace benefits for your home office
Tasks- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Product development
APIs Architecture Backend Communication Computer Science Engineering Go GraphQL GRPC HTTP Java ML Performance Product Development Python Quality REST Ruby Rust Software Development Thrift
Experience6 years
EducationBS Degree in Computer Science Computer Science Engineering Equivalent practical experience ML
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