Senior Staff Software Engineer, Client Architecture

Remote - United States · Remote · full time · Senior Staff

$232,500 – $325,500

Listed on Reddit’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Reddit seeks a senior technical leader to architect their content creation infrastructure across web and mobile platforms, with focus on modernizing post and comment composers and enabling new formats like video creation. This role suits someone with deep expertise in client-side performance and cross-platform architecture who can define multi-year technical vision while mentoring a large engineering organization.

Our summary, not Reddit’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

10+ years of professional software engineering experience
Proven track record as Senior Staff or Principal Engineer on consumer-facing mobile or web client applications
Deep mastery of modern web architecture (React, TypeScript, advanced state management)
Strong architectural knowledge of native mobile platforms (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin)
Demonstrated ability to solve client-side performance and rendering bottlenecks at scale
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Ability to lead large cross-functional engineering initiatives

Nice to have

Experience building highly interactive features like zero-latency rich-text editors
Experience with asynchronous media processing pipelines
Experience with real-time state synchronization systems
Track record influencing VP-level technical direction