Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
Reddit · Remote (United States) · Growth
staff
Software Engineer
tech_leadership
$217,000 – $303,000
USD per year
About this role
Reddit is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Distributed Systems, Microservices, System Design. Compensation is listed at $217,000–$303,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Department
- Growth
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Job description
from Reddit careersReddit 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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of our media infrastructure. In this role, you will define the strategy for how we ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio content at Reddit. You will tackle complex technical challenges while also helping shape our media product strategy to deliver high-quality media experiences globally.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- Accelerate product roadmap: Closely partner with XFNs to identify product opportunities to increase media consumption at Reddit.
- 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, content understanding, and GenAI.
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