Staff Software Engineer, DevPlatform
WFA Digital Insight
Reddit’s developer platform sits at the crossroads of a massive community and a thriving external ecosystem, making the Staff Software Engineer role uniquely impactful. The team is charged with building infrastructure that must stay online for millions of daily requests while delivering low‑latency experiences for third‑party developers. Unlike generic backend positions, this job blends deep systems work—storage‑as‑a‑service, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes orchestration—with product‑focused feature delivery such as SQL‑as‑a‑service for external apps. Candidates will be expected to lead large‑scale projects, mentor peers, and shape strategy from day one. Success hinges on strong Go and Typescript expertise, a hands‑on attitude toward distributed systems, and the ability to communicate complex ideas across fully remote, cross‑functional teams.
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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit is a platform that both celebrates and benefits from our users’ creativity. Tens of thousands of external developers are already building apps on our platform, but we can do so much more. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with a unique blend of skills and a wealth of experience to contribute to our innovative endeavors. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge backend for the developer platform. You'll collaborate with colleagues from various backgrounds and specialties, harnessing our collective strengths to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions tailored to our business's multifaceted needs. If you're passionate about making a significant impact and thrive in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, then we're excited to welcome you to our team! What You’ll Be Working On Building a platform that is highly available, extremely reliable, low on latency, and at internet scale. Creating and driving our Storage as a service strategy. Building the technical foundation for future features and experiences. Creating a collaborative and supportive team with a strong sense of ownership. Who You Might Be 7+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, developer tools, or app platforms. Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects as well as day-to-day troubleshooting. Go, Typescript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes experience. Mentoring and coaching other engineers as well as leading by example strong software engineering best practices. Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love. Entrepreneurial spirit. On our team, everyone needs to act like a startup CEO. You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform. Build new features for external developers such as SQL db as a service. Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks. Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future.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 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 salary 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,000 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. 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. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . 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.How to Stand Out
- Highlight concrete examples of Go and Kubernetes projects you have shipped, especially those that required high availability.
- Prepare a brief case study on a storage‑as‑a‑service or distributed SQL implementation you’ve led; be ready to discuss scaling decisions.
- Demonstrate mentorship experience by sharing how you’ve guided junior engineers or instituted best‑practice processes.
- During interviews, explain complex system designs in plain language; the team values clear communication across remote settings.
- If offered, ask about the remote work stipend and equipment budget early to ensure you have the resources you need.
- Research Reddit’s developer platform publicly available APIs so you can speak intelligently about its current capabilities.
- Be prepared to discuss how you handle incidents and post‑mortems, showing a proactive approach to reliability.
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