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Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there's a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com .
Reddit serves over 8 billion images per day. The Foundation team is part of the Consumer pillar at Reddit, focusing on developing and supporting all media consumed by Reddit users. This includes how we process and serve all rich content: videos, gifs, and streaming content. Our goal is to build a scalable, reliable and powerful Media ecosystem in-house and to make substantial improvements to Media playback systems across consumer surface areas. Our team is also responsible for the encoding and delivery of premium content to millions of users every day.
This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.
What You'll Do:
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategies and build novel products and features.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch
- Work with other engineers to build scalable platforms for supporting Video management and publishing systems
- Be responsible for doing minimal video quality checks, building, deploying, and managing video encoding applications to the cloud (AWS/GCP)
- Be responsible for supporting the video delivery and architecture of VOD and Live content
- Mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
What We Expect from You:
- 8-10+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust.
- [Required] Hands-on professional experience using Golang
- 2+ years as a Staff Engineer or Technical Lead working on consumer-facing products at scale
- 1+ years working with video protocols such as RTP, RTMP, HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming
- 1+ years working with modern video codecs like H264, VP8, VP9, AV1
- Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
- Experience driving cross-functional partnerships in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- 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.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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:
$198,200 - $297,300
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