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.