Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Summary

Join the Developer Experience team at Reddit as a Senior Software Engineer to design and support tools that enhance developer workflows across multiple programming languages, fostering innovation and efficiency within a dynamic engineering organization.

What you'll do

Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals
Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around developer experience, including service frameworks, development environments, version control, CI and deployment tooling
Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors
Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering
Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities

Requirements

5+ years of experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company’s strategy.
3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
3+ years of Go experience.
3+ years experience working on developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, gRPC, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
Experience with Kubernetes.
A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.
A track record of leading large scale projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence decisions while working across the entire engineering org.
Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and quality.
History of mentorship and technical leadership.