Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
$217,000 – $303,000 USD
Tech Stack
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
Written CommunicationVerbal CommunicationTechnical Leadership
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k
- Equity
- Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Mental Health
Culture
Cross-Functional TeamsMentorship ProgramInclusive HiringWork-Life Balance
Requirements
Regions: Us
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About Reddit
Industry: social media
Size: enterprise
Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, providing an open and authentic platform for conversations on the internet. With over 100,000 active communities and 126 million daily active unique visitors, it serves as a large source of online information.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $217,000 – $303,000 USD
Equity: equity in the form of restricted stock units