Senior Software Engineer - DevX

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly 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 the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
• 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.
• 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.

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