Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
USRemotePosted Today$217,000 – $303,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteUS
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Job Description
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
Key Highlights
- Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
- Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
- Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.
- Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence.
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$217,000 – $303,000
Location
US
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
US