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Reddit is a platform that both celebrates and benefits from our users’ creativity. Tens of thousands of external developers are already building apps on our platform, but we can do so much more.
We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with a unique blend of skills and a wealth of experience to contribute to our innovative endeavors. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge backend for the developer platform. You'll collaborate with colleagues from various backgrounds and specialties, harnessing our collective strengths to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions tailored to our business's multifaceted needs. If you're passionate about making a significant impact and thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, then we're excited to welcome you to our team!
What You’ll Be Working On
Building a platform that is highly available, extremely reliable, low on latency, and at internet scale.
Creating and driving our Storage as a service strategy.
Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences.
Creating a collaborative and supportive team with a strong sense of ownership.
Who You Might Be
7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms.
Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects as well as day-to-day troubleshooting.
Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes experience.
Mentoring and coaching other engineers as well as leading by example strong software engineering best practices.
Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love.
Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, everyone needs to act like a startup CEO. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform.
Build new features for external developers such as SQL db as a service.
Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future.
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
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base salary range for this position is:
$217,000—$303,000 USD
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Skills called out
TypeScriptGoRedisKubernetesSQL
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