Software Engineer, PDP Experience
About this role
Reddit is hiring a Software Engineer to own the Product Details Page (Comments) experience—one of the platform's highest-traffic surfaces. You'll collaborate across product and design to build and ship features at scale, balancing rapid iteration with quality on a distributed system serving 130M+ daily users.
What you'll do
- Design and develop features for Reddit's Comments page in collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams
- Contribute across the full development lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, experimentation, and launch
- Review code and design documents; provide feedback on product specifications and mockups
- Shape team strategy and technical standards while improving developer workflows
- Build and maintain scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, gRPC, or Thrift
- Balance shipping velocity with code quality and reliability on high-traffic infrastructure
What they're looking for
- 3+ years professional software development with distributed systems
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby
- API design and implementation (GraphQL, REST, gRPC, Thrift)
- Large-scale system architecture and optimization
- Cross-functional collaboration and technical communication
- Self-directed problem-solving in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Code review and mentorship
- Remote collaboration skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
- Generous paid parental leave
- Family planning and gender-affirming care support
- Mental health and coaching benefits
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Reddit builds and operates a large-scale platform serving millions of users, with data infrastructure, advertising systems, and notification products at its core. The company is hiring Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Fullstack Engineers to enhance data pipelines, optimize ad delivery, and scale user-facing features.
- Website
- reddit.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience building and scaling APIs for high-traffic systems. What challenges did you face?
- Tell us about a time you had to balance shipping speed with code quality. How did you make that trade-off?