Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit! You will: • Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit • Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization • Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission • Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability • Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world. You have: • Software development experience in Golang or Python • 5+ y…