Senior Software Engineer, Search

Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. 

Team Description:
The mission of the Search Experiences team is to empower users to safely navigate, find, and engage with the breadth and depth of Reddit; a team that is used by ⅕ of all Redditors daily! This includes enabling product development teams across the company, and serving as the client access layer for all of Reddit's rich dataset while driving the next generation of user experiences. This layer provides consistent and clear interfaces, strong contracts, and world-class developer ergonomics so that client and other engineers can focus on the product.

Role Description:
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Search Experiences team, you’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with other technical leaders to build a longer term roadmap to match the needs of an ever evolving search ecosystem. You’ll also look for opportunities to engage with the search, GraphQL, and ML community at large, presenting and sharing Reddit’s accomplishments within the industry, and bringing in good ideas from other peers.

Responsibilities:

• Building new GraphQL endpoints for external public facing consumers
• Scaling out internal ranking tools to deliver the best, most relevant results
• Building out new internal APIs that power ML driven consumer UIs
• Designing an architecture that is performant, stable, secure, and low cost.
• Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
• Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture.
• Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit engineering.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Java, Ruby.
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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