Principal Engineer, Core Platform Chicago, IL
Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Chicago
Posted on: October 2, 2024
Job Description:
The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests
responsible for powering the Consumer, ML, Ads, Safety surfaces for
Reddit.
What you'll do
- Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for
the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
- Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our
Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit
growth
- Define best practices and establish them as defaults for
developers across the company.
- Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in
backend service development within the data space.
- Lead technically minded peers on your journey.
What we expect from you
- Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software
systems at a large scale engineering organization
- 10+ years of Software Development experience with at least 5+
years in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP). Expert in at least two
programming languages.
- Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations
on technical direction/best practices
- Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that
improves developer's lives while also seamlessly supporting scale
and reliability
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design,
product, business & data teams to deliver great
experiences.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability,
reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user,
and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact
with software at scale.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability
to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
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Keywords: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc, Mount Prospect , Principal Engineer, Core Platform Chicago, IL, Engineering , Chicago, Illinois
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