Software Engineer (Platform)

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. The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests running the Core API Platform for Reddit. Core Platform is responsible for the APIs that build our listings, enabling posts, comments, media and many more features and data models that are the sources of truth for Reddit.  As a Senior Engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor. You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll work with your teammates to build and scale a media platform which will fuel the next wave of Reddit’s growth. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world.  Join us and help build the future of Reddit! You will: * Develop and design new and innovative solutions to scaling Reddit * Build platform API projects that scale to the rest of the organization * Mentor and coach more junior engineers on your direct team to achieve our mission * Build, deliver, and operate services that scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second at 5+ 9’s of availability * Help us to optimize Reddit’s media experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world. You have: * Software development experience in Golang or Python * 5+ years of experience with large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems. * Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences. * Familiarity with API platform service architectures. * History of building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. * Media delivery expertise from back end systems to the user.  Experience optimizing media performance, scalability, and delivery by improving different stages of the stack. Benefits: * 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    #LI-Remote Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In 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/. 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Extend is building a modern document processing platform, reimagined with LLMs. We're on a mission to transform how the world works with unstructured data. As a Software Engineer at Extend, you’ll be responsible for building our core platform that companies use to configure, test, and deploy document processing. We’re looking to hire exceptional engineers who care about crafting intuitive product experiences, relentlessly focus on the details, and operate with high agency. WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING * We've grown revenue 4x last year to several million ARR, with our growth continuing to accelerate * We have a product loved by users and being used in mission-critical flows at companies like Chime, Flatiron Health, Brex, Square, Zillow, Opendoor, Checkr, and many more * We're building the next generation document processing platform — the market for document processing has expanded 1000x due to LLMs, and existing solutions are all low NPS * We're punching well above our weight, supporting customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of other startups — everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact * We're tackling novel, unsolved problems at the intersection of LLMs, complex data processing, and human ↔ AI interfaces * We're backed by world class investors, including YC, Homebrew, investors from OpenAI, and more * You'll get a front row seat to how a successful startup is built with plenty of leadership opportunities as we grow quickly We're a lean team, and our customer base is growing too fast for us to keep up. We're looking for talented engineers to join our founding team ahead of our next round and execute on an ambitious roadmap. IMPACT We're powering mission-critical data processing at companies where if we get things wrong, there are real world impacts (e.g. missed payments, people can't move into homes on time). Here's a few of the complex technical problems we're working on: * How do we enable enterprises to deploy LLM-powered document processing into production with confidence? * How do we handle never before seen edge cases in customer data? * How do we build a self-correcting system that automatically gets better over time? * How do we enable non-technical domain experts to improve models with their expertise & business logic? * How do we help customers make tradeoffs between latency, cost, and performance? * How do we build reliable systems that can process large data streams in real-time? ROLE * Build, and maintain, durable, scalable systems capable of processing 10s of millions of data points per month. * Design and implement the best human ↔ AI interfaces for designing and understanding document processing. We are building a new territory of UX that previously did not exist. It’s up to us to discover and implement new patterns that work for our users. * Have complete ownership over the work you do — as a founding team member, you’ll have the opportunity to truly own large areas of product and engineering and have direct relationship with customers. * Work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members and help build out our team. IDEAL CANDIDATE CREDENTIALS * Strong foundational understanding of computer science principles through coursework, personal projects, internships, or prior work experience * 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (internships and part-time roles count!) * Enthusiasm for building high-quality, user-facing products and interest in working across the stack * Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, take ownership of projects, and work independently when needed * Interest in AI/ML technologies and curiosity about building products powered by LLMs BENEFITS Beyond the below, we care deeply about each of our candidates on a personal level. We take the time to understand your needs to craft a package designed for you: * Insurance - 90% health insurance premium coverage * Relocation - for candidates based outside of NYC * Unlimited PTO policy - we trust everyone like owners, take what you need * Daily lunch & snacks covered (plus dinner if you're in the office late) - you'll never go hungry and you help pick the snacks * Unlimited token / tooling access - no handicaps on your productivity * Learning and development investment - we invest heavily in our team and support your growth Extend is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.