Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL

Remote - United StatesRemote 1mo ago

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 expand 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