Senior Software Engineer – DevX

Reddit, Inc.

Software Engineer building AI-powered developer tools at Reddit for enhancing developer productivity. Collaborating across teams to improve software development processes and systems.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,800 - $267,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoGraphQLGRPCKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work cross-functionally across Reddit Engineering to understand developer needs, quickly prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
Design and build backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and platform capabilities that improve developer workflows across Reddit.
Build scalable and reliable systems across both AI-powered developer workflows and the core non-AI systems engineers rely on every day.
Lead high-impact projects across Reddit’s developer tooling ecosystem by writing and reviewing code and design docs, aligning stakeholders, and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
Build tools and integrations that connect developer workflows with Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
Design and implement maintainable APIs, services, libraries, and platforms that support internal developer tooling at scale.
Improve the team’s tools, processes, and best practices while raising the bar for reliability, usability, scalability, and maintainability.
Mentor engineers and help shape a roadmap that reflects real developer needs and delivers meaningful improvements to Reddit’s engineering organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional software development experience, with backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering as a core strength.
3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale distributed systems, including building and improving highly scalable and reliable services.
Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production systems.
Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or gRPC.
Experience building platforms, developer tools, libraries, frameworks, or internal systems used by other engineers.
Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and delivery.
Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer productivity.
A track record of leading large, ambiguous, high-impact projects that require cross-team collaboration, technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and clear ownership from problem definition through delivery.
A user-focused mindset, with strong empathy for internal engineering users and a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and quality.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and navigate complex requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and helping teams make pragmatic tradeoffs.
A self-directed, action-oriented approach. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and driving work forward even when the path is not fully defined.

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

GoAPIsGraphQLRESTHTTPgRPCKubernetescloud providersdistributed systemsscalable systems

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringcross-team collaborationuser-focused mindsetempathyaction-orientedproblem definitionstakeholder alignmenttechnical judgmentadaptability