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Senior Software Engineer - DevX

Reddit· Dev Platform
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Remote$190.8k - $267.1kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior role focused on designing and building developer tooling, AI-powered workflows, and platform infrastructure to improve Reddit engineers' productivity, reliability, and developer experience at scale. Remote in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
  • Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
  • Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and core non-AI systems.
  • Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
  • Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
  • Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
  • Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength.
  • 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
  • Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
  • Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC.
  • Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers.
  • Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
  • A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
  • A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
  • A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

Skills

Required:GoAPI design (GraphQL/REST/gRPC)Distributed systemsDeveloper tooling / platform engineering

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
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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