Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation
Build backend architecture and APIs for Reddit’s media creation tools, supporting video and image capture, editing, and publishing. The role requires 5+ years of professional software development experience, distributed-systems expertise, strong API design skills, and product-minded collaboration.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to execute product and business strategy.
- Own backend infrastructure for media creation, including fast, maintainable APIs integrated with frontend clients.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- Improve developer workflows and engineering standards through best-practice recommendations.
- Mentor junior engineers and balance delivery speed with product quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
- 3+ years of industry experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift, and maintainable API design.
- Experience with distributed caching layers and large-scale distributed data storage systems such as Redis.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment.
Nice-to-Haves
- Product thinking and experience translating complex workflows into robust backend state management.
- Experience building asynchronous media-processing pipelines and scalable event-driven microservices.
- Familiarity with background data fetching.
- Strong SQL-based data analysis skills.
- Hands-on experience with FFMPEG, GPAC, or similar media frameworks.
Skills
Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++, GraphQL, Rest, Http, gRPC, Thrift, Redis, SQL, Ffmpeg, Gpac, Distributed Systems
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