Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Who We Are

The Web Platform team leads the development of the Shreddit platform, the heart of reddit.com. We focus on platform-wide architecture, performance optimizations, operational health, and upleveling our web developer experience for one of the most trafficked sites on the internet.

You'll drive key platform initiatives, including optimizing Shreddit's global performance, evolving HTML rendering, and enhancing web infrastructure resiliency and scale. You will also boost developer experience through AI tooling, automated workflows, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.

What You’ll Do

• Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
• Full-Lifecycle Development: Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, HTML processing, observability, and reliability for core web experiences.
• Quality & Velocity: Move fast while maintaining high quality standards through thorough code reviews, detailed design doc evaluations, and constructive feedback on product specs and UI mocks.
• Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Help establish developer workflows, champion best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the team.

Technical Qualifications

• Web Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern web stacks, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a proven track record of translating complex problems into performant, scalable, and safe responsive, production-grade applications.
• Operational Health Excellence: Experience tracing, profiling, and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths, monitoring and reporting their operational health.
• AI-First Workflows Expertise: Experience implementing AI workflows and tooling to support and accelerate high quality web development, optimization, and debugging.
• API & System Design: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs using protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, HTTP, or Thrift basics.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Interview Process Note

In select roles and locations, interviews will be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). Candidates have the opportunity to opt out prior to scheduled interviews.