Staff Backend Engineer, Media Foundations

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit. Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads. This is a lead backend role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit's media experience across image and video creation, processing and delivery. We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership, combining strong execution skills with the ability to set vision and roadmap strategies. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in image and video processing, different codex, building scalable backend media systems, and optimizing performance through observability. 

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Architect and evolve Reddit media infrastructure to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that set new benchmarks for the industry.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

What We Are Looking For:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in large-scale distributed systems. 
• 8+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++)
• …