Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests and trust. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture of their media infrastructure, focusing on the ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery of video and audio content.

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
• Accelerate product roadmap: Closely partner with XFNs to identify product opportunities to increase media consumption at Reddit
• 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, content understanding, and GenAI
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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