Backend Engineer, Core Platform

The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit. 

The mission of the Core Platform team is to develop and maintain a set of core backend systems that many product development teams can leverage. These systems provide clear interfaces, low latencies, and high uptime so that product engineers can focus on the product.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Service layers that Reddit rests upon. Define and maintain the core data models that Reddit uses, and allow all the different parts of Reddit to work smoothly together at scale. 
• Designing an architecture that is performant, stable, secure, and low cost.
• Build foundational services that will define the future architecture of Reddit; handling millions of requests per second for tens of millions of users around the world every day

As a Backend Engineer on this team, you’ll be a critical part of the team building some of the most central systems at Reddit. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll build and scale the exciting features and services needed to create real-time experiences and spark connections, which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Location:

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent to accommodate the distributed nature of our Core Platform team and the rest of Reddit’s workforce. Candidates in Ireland (Dublin) or the UK(London) are preferred. This role is remote-friendly within these regions. 

You will:

• Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit
• Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization
• Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission
• Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to millions of transactions per second at 4+ 9’s of availability and tens of millions of users per day

You have:

• Multiple years of professional software development experience in a “systems” language like golang, Python, c, c++, rust, java. 
• 3+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Great communication skills. You know when to speak up and when to ask for help. You can raise complex technical issues with XFN peers in a way that is easily understood and acted upon.
• Familiarity with service architectures and building API platforms for customers
• History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

We offer unique benefits, such as: 

• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Life Assurance, Income Protection
• Workspace benefit for your home office 
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support 
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off