Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

Reddit, Inc.

Staff Software Engineer focusing on technical architecture of media infrastructure for Reddit. Leading large-scale systems and mentoring teams to enhance media experiences globally.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $217,000 - $303,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

media processingmedia delivery infrastructurebackend servicesvideo ingestionaudio ingestiondistributed transcodingCDN routingevent-driven architecturesmicroservicesAI integration

Soft Skills

mentorshipleadershipcommunicationinfluencetechnical directioncollaborationalignmentproblem-solvingjudgmentempowerment