Job Description

Our 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 .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're and will continue to be after the pandemic.

"The front page of the internet," Reddit brings over 500 million people each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

The Foundation team is part of the Consumer pillar at Reddit, focusing on developing and supporting all media consumed by Reddit users. That includes how we process and serve all rich content: videos, gifs, and streaming content. The 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.

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. The Foundation team is powering the largest content evolution in Reddit's history, setting the stage for even bigger bets to come.

What You'll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be:

• 6+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, C++.
• 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 to deliver 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 partner effectively with teams in a fully remote. environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with On Demand or Live media, Video Encoding is a plus.

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