4 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and client engineers to translate user and business needs into reliable, low-latency solutions.
- Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives, including technical designs, API contracts, development, testing, rollout, and observability.
- Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments using behavioral, conversion, and retention metrics.
- Build and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services optimized for web and mobile clients.
- Improve engineering practices and developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern AI-assisted tools to ship efficiently.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.
- Proficiency in Go or Python, or comparable experience with Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C++.
- Expertise designing and maintaining scalable APIs with GraphQL, REST, or gRPC.
- Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores such as Redis, Cassandra, or PostgreSQL.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, data, and client engineering teams and make data-informed product decisions.
- Strong communication skills, self-direction, comfort with ambiguity, and experience driving cross-functional alignment in remote or hybrid environments.
- Experience or interest in AI-assisted engineering tools is preferred.
Benefits
- U.S.-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program with employer match, generous vacation time, and parental leave are offered.
- The position is eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and may be eligible for commission depending on the position offered.
- Interview recording, transcription, and AI summarization may apply in select roles and locations, with an option to opt out before scheduled interviews.
- Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans.
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About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.