Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Go)

Location: Remote - United States. Other location: San Francisco, California, United States.

Salary: $286,700–$401,400 USD base salary annually, plus potential equity and commission depending on the position offered.

Company

Reddit is a community platform with more than 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors. The Infrastructure organization builds the compute orchestration environment, storage and data systems, and essential platform services behind Reddit.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure in collaboration with software and systems engineers.
• Design, implement, and deliver software in Go and sometimes Python to improve product availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
• Guide the technical and strategic direction of the multi-cloud compute platform.
• Automate service creation, service management, development workflows, and critical infrastructure operations.
• Mentor backend developers across the company and act as a technical escalation point for complex problems.
• Troubleshoot and analyze infrastructure and customer workload issues as the platform scales.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in infrastructure roles.
• Experience influencing technical direction and best practices across organizations of 500+ engineers.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including design, product, and data.
• Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, and software quality.
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages: Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with a service-oriented team and company.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure systems, including Kubernetes and AWS or GCE ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match and global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
• Family planning support, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI for select roles and locations; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.

Hiring process

• Personal information, including professional details and interview audio or video, may be collected to evaluate employment or independent contractor applications.
• Reasonable interview accommodations are available for qualified candidates with disabilities and disabled veterans.