[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform @Reddit

Role Description

This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

The Web Platform team leads the development of the Shreddit platform, the heart of reddit.com. We focus on platform-wide architecture, performance optimizations, operational health and upleveling our web developer experience for one of the most trafficked sites on the internet.

With us, you’ll turn ambiguous platform problems into clear designs and ship high‑quality, observable, well‑tested solutions that other teams rely on every day.

• Drive key platform initiatives, including optimizing Shreddit's global performance, evolving HTML rendering, and enhancing web infrastructure resiliency and scale.
• Boost developer experience through AI tooling, automated workflows, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Platform Minded Engineer: Empower engineers to deliver safe, scalable, and high-performance solutions by standardizing cross-organizational patterns, workflows, and tooling.
• Pragmatic Builder: Strike the right balance between rapid iteration and architectural rigor, delivering scalable solutions without getting bogged down by unnecessary processes.
• Effective Collaborator: Excel in communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuous Learner: Have a deep curiosity for emerging technologies and actively keep up with modern industry trends, standards, and performance optimizations.

Requirements

• Web Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex problems into performant, scalable and safe responsive, production-grade applications.
• Operational Health Excellence: Experience tracing, profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths, monitoring and reporting their operational health.
• AI-First Workflows Expertise: Experience implementing AI workflows and tooling to support and accelerate high quality web development, optimization and debugging.
• API & System Design: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

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