Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL

2 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Reddit is a community-driven platform with over 100,000 active communities and 101M+ daily active unique visitors, serving as a major source of internet information. This role focuses on GraphQL, Reddit's first-party API layer, which provides client access to rich datasets and powers next-gen user experiences. The team's mission is to develop foundational GraphQL infrastructure, scale solutions for hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools for schema contributions, ensuring powerful and flexible execution with world-class developer ergonomics.
Must have:
  • 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.
  • 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.
Good to have:
  • Specific GraphQL backend experience
  • Experience structuring and implementing complex data models
Perks:
  • 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

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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.

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.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

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

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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.

Similar Jobs

Looks like we're out of matches

Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!

Similar Skill Jobs

Looks like we're out of matches

Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!

Jobs in United States

Looks like we're out of matches

Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!

Software Development & Engineering Jobs

Looks like we're out of matches

Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!