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Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Lead technical architecture for Reddit's global media infrastructure, designing scalable systems for video/audio ingestion, processing, and delivery while partnering with ML teams and mentoring engineering groups.

217k – 303k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
  • Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
  • Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.
  • Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
  • Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.
  • Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence.

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

Skills

Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureMicroservicesVideo ProcessingAudio ProcessingTranscodingCdnSlos/SlasBackend ServicesAi Integration
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