Staff Software Engineer, Media Foundations
$217K–$303K
Remote - United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
About the job
Leads the architecture and strategy for Reddit’s global media infrastructure, including processing, storage, and delivery of video and audio.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve scalable media processing and delivery systems; optimize performance, reliability, and media quality.
- Build and improve services for media ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing; establish engineering standards and SLOs/SLAs.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, set roadmaps, and mentor and align multiple engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical direction without direct management authority.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
Pay
$217,000 — $303,000 USD base salary
Tools
AV1, VP9, H.264, CDNs
AI focus
Use and evangelize AI-assisted development tools for prototyping, system design, and coding, with rigorous validation of outputs.
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