Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL
At a glance
Highlights
- Remote-friendly (US only)
- Work on large‑scale GraphQL infrastructure
- Mentor and lead engineers
Why this role might suit you
A senior engineer with strong Go and GraphQL expertise will thrive building Reddit's core API platform, tackling scalability and latency challenges while mentoring peers in a remote‑first environment.
Skills
About the role
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
Location: This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.
Who We Are
GraphQL is Reddit's first-party API layer, providing client access to Reddit's rich dataset and driving the next generation of user experiences. GraphQL provides product engineers across Reddit clear interfaces, a powerful and flexible execution engine, and world-class developer ergonomics. Our team's mission is to develop the next generation of foundational GraphQL infrastructure, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools for contributors to create and GraphQL schema.
Some of our present and future challenges include:
Driving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture.
Deploying GraphQL to operate concurrently across global datacenters.
Expanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions.
Building deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture.
Tuning our stack for latency, resilience, and scale.
What you'll do
Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure.
Design, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency.
Investigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale.
Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the GraphQL platform.
Guide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader.
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