Staff Backend Engineer, Core Platform Community
Remote - United States
The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.Â
As a Staff Engineer on this team, youâll be a technical coach and mentor. Youâll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. Youâll build and scale the exciting features and services needed to create real-time experiences and spark connections, which will fuel the next wave of Redditâs growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
You will:
- Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
- Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
- Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
- Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9âs of availability
You have:
- Software development experience in Golang or Python
- 10+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with API platform service architectures.
- History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Benefits/Perks401(k) matching 401(k) program 4+ months paid Parental Leave Commission Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits Equity Family Planning Family Planning Support Flexible Vacation Generous time off Global Wellness Global Wellness Days 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 benefits Workspace benefits for your home office
Tasks- Mentor junior engineers
APIs Backend Communication Distributed Systems Engineering Golang Performance Python REST Software Development Spark
Experience10+ years
TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9