Principal Engineer, Web Performance

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com. We've been hard at work rewriting our website from scratch over the last couple of years. The new web experience is more than twice as fast as our previous web platforms - which means Redditors can get directly to the content they came for – instead of waiting… and waiting for the page to load. Performance has driven growth in our userbase and we are deepening our investments into web performance. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to lead technical efforts in web performance. In this role, you will define our new performance strategy, organize and lead engineering changes and fully own improving the performance of our website. You'll serve as the primary domain expert and technical leader, driving architecture, design, and implementation while collaborating with engineers, Directors & PMs across multiple teams. In your day-to-day, you can expect to: Build and own the strategy for dramatically improving the performance of Reddit's website Set and support a metrics-driven culture, with efficient processes and strong transparency. Develop scalable infrastructure for serving reddit web traffic Drive alignment on product and technical strategy with cross-functional teams, including engineering and product. Maintain high standards of technical excellence while balancing business priorities. Partner with other technical leads and managers across engineering and infra teams to ensure seamless integration and execution.

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.