# Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Hiring organization: [Reddit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/reddit)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b62c33bf-4009-49dd-8ca0-7f1ec1aed9f9

Listed on Reddit's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Salary: 190800 – 267100 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads technical initiatives on Reddit's core API platform, which handles hundreds of millions of daily requests. It suits experienced backend engineers who can mentor others while building and scaling high-availability distributed systems.

_Our summary, not Reddit's wording._

## Skills named

API Design, Python

## Required

- 5+ years building large-scale distributed systems
- Software development in Golang or Python
- API platform service architecture knowledge
- Clean, maintainable, well-tested code practices
- Media delivery and optimization experience

Apply on Reddit's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8022448