Staff Software Engineer, Media Experience

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next version of our media infrastructure at Reddit. The role involves defining technical components for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video/audio content. Responsibilities include working cross-functionally, contributing to full development cycle, participating in a team, balancing speed and quality, and collaborating to improve media performance.

BS in Computer Science or equivalent, 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems, 7+ years software development in Go/Python/Ruby/Java/C++, experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, Thrift, distributed caching (Redis), image processing, streaming protocols (HLS, MPEG-DASH), video compression (H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1), strong organizational and communication skills.