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Senior Staff Engineer, GraphQL

Senior Staff Engineer, GraphQL to solve API infrastructure challenges.
Reddit
Remote
United States
USD 232,500 - 325,500
Job Description
Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL to contribute to the development of the next generation of GraphQL architecture. The ideal candidate will work closely with teams across Reddit, including Infra, Product, and Safety teams, to build secure, scalable software and enable next-generation user experiences. This role involves setting the technical direction and contributing to the design, implementation, and operations for the GraphQL roadmap.Reddit's GraphQL Team's mission is to develop the next generation of GraphQL architecture, scale our solutions to support hundreds of millions of users, and build intuitive tools to enable contributors to rapidly evolve user experience through our GraphQL platform.Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to the team and organization’s long term technical strategy.
  • Evolve our GraphQL user platform to enable efficient, performant API contributions.
  • Solve domain challenges like traffic shaping, service federation, and schema governance.
  • Expand GraphQL's architecture to operate concurrently across global datacenters.
  • Work with director+ leadership across Reddit to build and align our long-term platform roadmaps.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of technical leadership including both setting and delivering on long-term vision.
  • 10+ years of coding in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Deep expertise designing large-scale user-facing API platforms, especially with GraphQL.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in product, ads, and data science.
  • Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Go, C++ or Java.
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Benefits:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off
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