Senior Software Engineer – DevX

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• GraphQL
• GRPC
• Kubernetes
• Go

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