SeniorSoftwareEngineer-DevX
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“Senior Software Engineer - DevX at Reddit. Skills: backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, AI-powered workflows. Design and build backend systems. Design and build APIs”
What You'll Achieve.
improve how Reddit engineers develop software; building tools that are not only more intelligent, but also faster, more reliable, easier to use, and grounded in engineering fundamentals; Improving developer velocity; Improving developer confidence; Improving service reliability; Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier; Scaling our infrastructure; Scaling our services; Scaling our APIs; Scaling our processes; Understanding internal users’ needs; turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements; Building integrations across Reddit’s existing infrastructure; Building integrations across CI/CD; Building integrations across security; Building integrations across source control; Building integrations across deployment; Building integrations across operational systems; deliver meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization
Industry & Context.
solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers; technical judgment; making pragmatic technical tradeoffs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength, 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, building and improving highly scalable and reliable services, proficiency with Go, significant experience with Go in production systems, Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs, Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers, Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery, Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects, cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, clear ownership from problem definition through delivery, A user-focused mindset, empathy for internal engineering users, focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality, Excellent communication skills, ability to influence technical direction, navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders, Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs, A self-directed, action-oriented approach, comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined
Nice to Have
Experience working in developer experience, developer productivity, internal platforms, developer tooling, Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users, Experience building or extending CI/CD systems, partnering with teams that own build, test, and release workflows, Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server, large-scale source control platforms, Experience with Python, Experience measuring the impact of platform or developer productivity work through experimentation, measured rollouts, analytics, reliability metrics, qualitative feedback
What You'll Do.
Design and build backend systems
Design and build APIs
Design and build infrastructure
Design and build platform capabilities
Build scalable and reliable systems
Lead high-impact projects
Build tools and integrations
Design and implement maintainable APIs
Design and implement services
Design and implement libraries
Design and implement platforms
Improve team’s processes
Improve team’s best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering; collaborate closely with teams that own CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product systems; work directly with engineers across Reddit; aligning stakeholders; cross-team collaboration
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; ability to influence technical direction; navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Process & Methodology
leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects, clear ownership from problem definition through delivery
Full Job Description
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. About the role AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible, creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write, test, review, ship, and operate software. At Reddit’s scale, that means building tools that are not only more intelligent, but also faster, more reliable, easier to use, and grounded in strong engineering fundamentals. This role sits at the center of that work: designing and building the platforms, services, systems, and workflows that improve how Reddit engineers develop software. You’ll work across backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-powered workflows to solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers across the company. You’ll collaborate closely with teams that own CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product systems, as well as engineering teams across Reddit that rely on these tools every day. We’re looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, infrastructure experience, product judgment, and a real interest in developer experience and developer productivity. Some of our present and future challenges include: Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling, including agentic and AI-powered workflows. Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering. Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier. Scaling our infrastructure, services, APIs, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization. Understanding internal users’ needs and t
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