# Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $191K-$267K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Distributed Systems, API Design, Media Delivery, Performance Optimization, Scalability, Mentoring, Code Review, Testing
**Posted:** 2026-06-23
> Senior engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team building and scaling high-throughput APIs and media services. Requires 5+ years with large-scale distributed systems, Golang or Python experience, and media delivery expertise.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
- Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
- Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
- Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability
- Help optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world

## Requirements
- Software development experience in Golang or Python
- 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
- Excellent communication skills; partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with API platform service architectures
- History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user; experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack

## Nice-to-Haves
- Technical coaching and mentoring experience

## Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Commission eligibility (depending on position)
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