✨ About The Role
- The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for developing and designing innovative solutions to scale Reddit's platform.
- This role involves building platform API projects that will be utilized across the organization.
- The engineer will mentor and coach junior engineers to help them achieve their professional goals.
- The position requires delivering and operating services that can handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second with high availability.
- The engineer will work on optimizing Reddit's media experience for a vast user base, impacting hundreds of millions of users globally.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software development, particularly with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Golang or Python is essential for success in this role.
- Excellent communication skills are necessary to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams in a fully remote environment.
- A proven track record of mentoring and coaching junior engineers will be crucial for fostering team growth and achieving project goals.
- Experience with API platform service architectures and a history of writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code is highly valued.