Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL
Job Summary
Reddit is seeking an experienced software engineer to work on its GraphQL infrastructure, focusing on developing scalable and efficient backend solutions. The role involves designing and maintaining the core platform, optimizing performance at massive scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, proficiency in Go and cloud infrastructure, and experience with GraphQL is a plus. The position offers comprehensive benefits, including healthcare, retirement plans, parental support, and flexible time off.
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GraphQL is Reddit's first-party API layer, providing client access to Reddit's rich dataset and driving the next generation of user experiences. GraphQL provides product engineers across Reddit clear interfaces, a powerful and flexible execution engine, and world-class developer ergonomics.
Our team's mission is to develop the next generation of foundational GraphQL infrastructure, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools for contributors to create and expand GraphQL schema.
Some of our present and future challenges include:
- Driving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture.
- Deploying GraphQL to operate concurrently across global datacenters.
- Expanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions.
- Building deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture.
- Tuning our stack for latency, resilience, and scale.
In your day-to-day, you can expect to:
- Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure.
- Design, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency.
- Investigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale.
- Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the GraphQL platform.
- Guide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader.
- Share on-call responsibilities with the GraphQL team.
Who you might be:
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems.
- Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go).
- Experience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company's strategy.
- Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).
- High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization.
- Specific GraphQL backend experience is a plus.
- Experience structuring and implementing complex data models is a plus.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Pay Transparency:
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 pay 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.
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.
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