Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify product opportunities and increase media consumption at Reddit.
• Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
• Collaborate with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap supporting media recommendation, content understanding, and GenAI.
• Establish engineering best practices, design next-generation media services, and define strict SLOs/SLAs for media operations.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• 401k
• Dental
• Equity
• Flexible PTO
• Health Insurance
• Mental Health
• Parental Leave
• Vision

Culture

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