Senior Web Engineer, Web Platform

About The Position

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 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. As a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Platform team, you’ll lead the development of Shreddit, the heart of reddit.com, with a focus on platform architecture, performance, operational health, and developer experience. You’ll turn ambiguous platform problems into clear designs and ship high‑quality, observable, well‑tested solutions that other teams rely on every day. You’ll work on high‑impact platform projects like optimizing Shreddit's bundling and delivery of assets, evolving our html rendering orchestration layer to provide a top-of-the-line experience for our users world-wide, and our web platform infrastructure's resiliency and scalability. You will also drive developer-experience improvements such as improving our CI/CD pipelines, providing easy-to-use developer patterns so that product teams can ship fast, safe and performant features on Shreddit.

Requirements

6+ years software engineering experience, with experience in working cross-functionally to lead projects from start to finish with end user impact.
Deep experience with modern web platform engineering: TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, bundlers (e.g., Vite, Rollup, Webpack), and Node performance observability tools.
Experience with one or more front-end web frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular or Lit.
A past track record of quality: Enabling testing culture (unit/integration tests, local/automated testing, load and performance testing) Improving resiliency and fault tolerance of systems Profiling and tuning performance of network calls, rendering, or data access paths.
You embody Reddit’s core value of Evolve: Only by continually improving and learning will we succeed.
You treat ambiguity and hard problems as learning opportunities, seek feedback, and continuously improve your craft and our platform.

Responsibilities

Build with impact: Design and evolve the Shreddit web platform’s architecture, performance, and developer tooling that powers reddit.com for hundreds of millions of users across the world.
Own the web stack: Lead end‑to-end delivery of complex, cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences.
Collaborate broadly: Partner with feature teams, infrastructure, safety, security and other platform teams to make Reddit’s web experience fast, stable, and accessible worldwide.
Multiply others: Mentor and coach other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and documentation, raising the bar for web engineering across Reddit.
Shape the platform: Be a thought partner in our web platform strategy, informing our roadmap for performance as a feature, observability, and developer experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive Health benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave