Senior Software Engineer

Reddit · Chicago, Illinois, United States

SeniorSoftware EngineeringRemotePosted 6 days ago
Pay — up front
$191k–$267k
Level
Senior
Location
Remote
Apply via
Greenhouse
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Job Duties: Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices. Design and build solutions that span systems and own the software design end to end. Work in partnership with management and senior leadership to ensure alignment between technical and business goals. Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements.

Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline and five (5) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in a related field.

Special Skill

Requirements

(1) Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems (2) Applied machine learning integration (3) Generative Al training and integration (4) continuous integration and deployment pipelines (5) Data pipelines and ETL (6) monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (7) Observability and on-call management (8) Real-time search and ad ranking (9) search systems (10) SQL and NoSQL (11) unit testing and code quality.

Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience is acceptable. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

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

Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: [email protected] at Req.# 1016.64.3.

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.

The base pay range for this position is: $190,800.00 - $267,100.00 USD

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During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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