Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit's Consumer Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale products for content discovery, community participation, and user connection. The role partners with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver features for hundreds of millions of users. Responsibilities include designing APIs, building experiments, ensuring system reliability, and mentoring teammates.

5+ years of backend development experience building large-scale distributed systems. Proficiency in Go or Python. Expertise in designing scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC. Experience with high-throughput caching and distributed datastores like Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL. User-centric, data-driven mindset with strong collaboration skills. Interest in AI-assisted engineering tools.