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Staff Software Engineer (Media Foundations)

Reddit

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • Distributed Systems
  • event-driven architectures
  • microservices

Preferred

  • media infrastructure
  • processing and delivery infrastructure
  • drive alignment

and business impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical architecture of media infrastructure, defining the strategy for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video and audio content.
  • Design and evolve global media processing and delivery infrastructure, optimizing for scalability, performance, and fault tolerance.
  • Establish engineering best practices, mentor and guide multiple engineering teams, and drive alignment across the company.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence

Pay

USD 217,000 - 303,000