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Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

“The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests responsible for powering the Consumer, ML, Ads, Safety surfaces for Reddit.

What you’ll do

Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit growth
Define best practices and establish them as defaults for developers across the company.
Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in backend service development within the data space.
Lead technically minded peers on your journey.

What we expect from you

Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
10+ years of Software Development experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP). Expert in at least two programming languages.
Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices
Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves developer’s lives while also seamlessly supporting scale and reliability
Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

This role is US-based, and 100%, permanently remote.

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 pay 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 pay range for this position is:

$232,500—$325,500 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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