{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"747f90bf1c7e7e7dffc2d83f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/747f90bf1c7e7e7dffc2d83f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/747f90bf1c7e7e7dffc2d83f","title":"Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL","description":"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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.\nLocation: 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.\nWho We Are\nGraphQL 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 expand GraphQL schema.\nSome of our present and future challenges include:\nDriving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture.\nDeploying GraphQL to operate concurrently across global datacenters.\nExpanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions.\nBuilding deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture.\nTuning our stack for latency, resilience, and scale.\nWhat you'll do\nWork collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure.\nDesign, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency.\nInvestigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale.\nContribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the GraphQL platform.\nGuide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader.\nShare on-call responsibilities with the GraphQL team.\nWho you might be\n5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems.\nProficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go).\nExperience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company's strategy.\nCapability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).\nHigh empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization.\nSpecific GraphQL backend experience is a plus.\nExperience structuring and implementing complex data models is a plus\nBenefits:\nComprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs\n401k with Employer Match\nGlobal Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support\nFamily Planning Support\nGender-Affirming Care\nMental Health & Coaching Benefits\nFlexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off\nGenerous Paid Parental Leave\n\n#LI-remote\nPay Transparency:\nThis job posting may span more than one career level.\nIn addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.\nThe base salary range for this position is:\n$190,800 - $267,100 USD\nIn select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.\nDuring the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.\nReddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.\nLocation: 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.\nWho We Are\nGraphQL 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 expand GraphQL schema.\nSome of our present and future challenges include:\nDriving adoption of our Golang-based federated GraphQL architecture.\nDeploying GraphQL to operate concurrently across global datacenters.\nExpanding our developer tooling to enable elegant schema contributions.\nBuilding deep observability to coordinate GraphQL requests efficiently across Reddit's architecture.\nTuning our stack for latency, resilience, and scale.\nWhat you'll do\nWork collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's GraphQL infrastructure.\nDesign, build, and deliver solutions to improve GraphQL's functionality, scalability, and efficiency.\nInvestigate and tune the operation of our platform operating at massive scale.\nContribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of the GraphQL platform.\nGuide and support fellow engineers within the team as a mentor and leader.\nShare on-call responsibilities with the GraphQL team.\nWho you might be\n5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems.\nProficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go).\nExperience identifying and driving high impact projects that align with the company's strategy.\nCapability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP).\nHigh empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization.\nSpecific GraphQL backend experience is a plus.\nExperience structuring and implementing complex data models is a plus\nBenefits:\nComprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs\n401k with Employer Match\nGlobal Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support\nFamily Planning Support\nGender-Affirming Care\nMental Health & Coaching Benefits\nFlexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off\nGenerous Paid Parental Leave\n\n#LI-remote\nPay Transparency:\nThis job posting may span more than one career level.\nIn addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.\nThe base salary range for this position is:\n$190,800 - $267,100 USD\nIn select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.\nDuring the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.\nReddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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