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 careers
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 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.
  • This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on Reddit careers →
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