Senior Staff Engineer, GraphQL

3 Months ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $232,500 PA - $325,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for solving large-scale API infrastructure challenges. The role involves contributing to the long-term technical strategy, evolving the GraphQL user platform, solving domain challenges, expanding GraphQL's architecture globally, and collaborating with various teams. This is a high-impact role involving technical direction, design, implementation, and operations for the GraphQL roadmap. The job requires working with teams across Reddit to build secure, scalable software and enable next-generation user experiences.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience.
  • 10+ years of coding in a production setting.
  • Deep expertise in designing large-scale user-facing API platforms, especially with GraphQL.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders.
  • Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months 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.

The GraphQL Team is looking to hire a Senior Staff Software Engineer who is excited to solve large-scale API infrastructure challenges.

Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Today, our API layer serves billions of client requests daily across thousands of unique queries through a stateless, multi-region GraphQL infrastructure.  Our team's mission is to develop the next generation of GraphQL architecture, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools to enable contributors to rapidly evolve user experience through our GraphQL platform.

You will work closely with teams across Reddit - with Infra peers in Compute, Transport, and Observability to build secure, scalable large-scale software; with Product and Safety teams to enable next-generation user experiences; and with Mobile and Web clients to shape and tune their backend traffic.  This is a high-impact role where you will both set the technical direction, and contribute to design, implementation, and operations for the GraphQL roadmap.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

  • Contribute to the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
  • Evolve our GraphQL user platform to enable efficient, performant API contributions.
  • Solve sticky domain challenges like traffic shaping, service federation, and schema governance.
  • Expand GraphQL's architecture to operate concurrently across global datacenters.
  • Work with director+ leadership across Reddit to build and align our long-term platform roadmaps.

Who you might be:

  • 5+ years of technical leadership including both setting and delivering on long-term vision.
  • 10+ years of coding in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Deep expertise designing large-scale user-facing API platforms, especially with GraphQL.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in product, ads, and data science.
  • Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.

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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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:

$232,500 - $325,500 USD

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.

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