Reddit
Senior Software Engineer- DevX
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Role overview
Senior Software Engineer- DevX
Requirements and responsibilities
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About the role
- 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 turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
- Building integrations across Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
- Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
You Have
- 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.
- Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
- Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC.
- 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, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
- A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
- A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
- A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.
Bonus Points
- Experience working in developer experience, developer productivity, internal platforms, or developer tooling.
- Experience building tools or workflows for internal engineering users.
- Experience building or extending CI/CD systems, and partnering with teams that own build, test, and release workflows.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise Server or 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, or qualitative feedback.
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
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