Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Reddit

Confirmed open

Build internal developer platforms, APIs and AI-assisted workflows for Reddit engineering. The posting emphasizes Go, distributed systems, CI/CD integrations and developer tooling; its remote location is in the United States.

Reddit

Location: Remote
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Python, Kubernetes, Go

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Role overview

Reddit’s developer experience team builds systems that help its engineers write, test, review, deploy and operate software. The role combines back-end, infrastructure and AI-assisted tooling work.

Responsibilities

AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible, creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write, test, review, ship, and operate software. At Reddit’s scale, that means building tools that are not only more intelligent, but also faster, more reliable, easier to use, and grounded in strong engineering fundamentals.
This role sits at the center of that work: designing and building the platforms, services, systems, and workflows that improve how Reddit engineers develop software. You’ll work across backend systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-powered workflows to solve problems that affect hundreds of engineers across the company. You’ll collaborate closely with teams that own CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product systems, as well as engineering teams across Reddit that rely on these tools every day. We’re looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, infrastructure experience, product judgment, and a real interest in developer experience and developer productivity.
Some of our present and future challenges include:
Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling, including agentic and AI-powered workflows.
Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.
Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier.
Scaling our infrastructure, services, APIs, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization.
Understanding internal users’ needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
Building integrations across Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers.
You’ll draw on your backend, infrastructure, and platform engineering experience to build developer tooling that is scalable, reliable, easy to use, and valuable to a growing engineering organization. You’ll work directly with engineers across Reddit to understand their pain points, shape solutions, incorporate feedback, and communicate the impact of the team’s work.
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.

Qualifications

Some of our present and future challenges include:
Designing and building the next generation of developer tooling, including agentic and AI-powered workflows.
Improving developer velocity, confidence, and service reliability across Reddit Engineering.
Building tools and workflows that make writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code easier.
Scaling our infrastructure, services, APIs, and processes to serve a growing engineering organization.
Understanding internal users’ needs and turning that understanding into meaningful product and technical improvements.
Building integrations across Reddit’s existing infrastructure, CI/CD, security, source control, deployment, and operational systems.
Investigating, building, and integrating novel technologies where they solve real problems for developers.
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.
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.
The base salary range for this position is:
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors .
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Technology in this role

Python: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
Kubernetes: • Experience with infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers, or other systems that support modern software development and .
Go: • Strong proficiency with Go, and significant experience with Go in production .
CI/CD: You’ll collaborate closely with teams that own CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product systems, as well as engineering teams across Reddit that rely on these tools every .
CAN: • Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools and workflows, with curiosity and judgment about where these tools can meaningfully improve developer .
GraphQL: • Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or .
gRPC: • Experience designing and implementing maintainable APIs using technologies such as GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or .

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base salary range for this position is:
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors .
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

About Reddit

The Deployment Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of the web UI for our build and deployment platform. In this role, you’ll craft a cohesive, intuitive user experience that enables engineers across Reddit to build, test, and ship software safely and confidently to a globally distributed cloud ecosystem.

Our team owns continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the underlying systems that power build and deployment workflows. We’re looking for an engineer who operates at the intersection of frontend engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure, and developer experience.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack, with a focus on creating reusable, maintainable UI components and polished frontends that scale with the platform

Contribute to backend systems to deliver cohesive, end-to-end product experiences

Define and enforce clean API boundaries between frontend and backend systems

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