Reddit

Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$217k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner cross-functionally with product, data science, operations, and engineering teams to execute safety-related product and business strategy.
  • Contribute across the full development lifecycle, including ideation, technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
  • Review code and design documents and help shape the technical roadmap.
  • Lead, coach, and mentor engineers while establishing standards and best practices that improve developer workflows.
  • Drive technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for high-scale platform safety systems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
  • Ability to work independently, innovate, operate in ambiguity, and build in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and communicating complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Preferred: applied machine learning experience for a product or business solution.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
  • Family planning support.
  • Gender-affirming care.
  • Mental health and coaching benefits.
  • Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
  • Generous paid parental leave.
  • Fully remote-friendly within the United States, with optional access to offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago.

Tech Stack

Categories

Reddit

About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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