Staff iOS Engineer (Media Foundation)

• The Media Foundation’s mission is simple: Delivering seamless, high-performance media experiences that meet and exceed industry standards, ensuring unparalleled engagement across all platforms at Reddit
• Media is the most engaging medium on Reddit, whether it’s for posts, comments, or ads
• This is a pivotal role within the Media Foundation team, essential to shaping Reddit’s media experience across all devices
• This role not only involves building robust media capabilities but also contributing to the growth and strength of our media engineering team as Reddit continues to scale
• This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world
• Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users
• Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features that our users will love
• Work with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits

• We are seeking a stellar engineer with a deep understanding of scalable media solutions who can drive innovation, deliver top-tier video experiences to our users, and guide other teams in seamlessly integrating with our video API
• Strong understanding of Core Media for timing and synchronization and Core Video for buffer handling, essential for custom playback and real-time video manipulation
• Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as working knowledge of streaming frameworks and CDN integration for optimized video delivery
• At least 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with reactive frameworks (RxSwift, Combine)
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• In-depth knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure