Staff iOS Engineer, Media Foundation
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-12T12:36:11-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Benefits & Perks
edical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, ge
Requirements
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.
Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved.
Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence.
Compensation & 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
Responsibilities
Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability media for millions of users.
Accelerate product roadmap: Closely partner with XFNs to identify product opportunities to increase media consumption at Reddit.
Optimize Media Pipelines: Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
Drive AI Integration: Partner with ML/AI teams to build a roadmap that supports media recommendation, content understanding, and GenAI.
Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams.