2 hours ago
Base Salary
$217k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems protecting Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse.
- Develop and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers.
- Build real-time systems that detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic at per-request and per-user granularity.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and Safety teams to balance security, performance, and user experience.
- Contribute to ML-at-Ingress initiatives for traffic classification, bot detection, and anomaly detection.
- Own services end to end, including design, implementation, on-call, and operational excellence.
- Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis for large-scale network and abuse events.
- Mentor junior engineers in their professional growth.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency production distributed systems.
- Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems.
- Experience with networking fundamentals including HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, and load balancing.
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration in a service-oriented team and company.
- Nice to have experience with anti-abuse frameworks and bot scores such as ReCaptcha, Datadome, or Turnstile.
- Nice to have experience with browser fingerprinting frameworks such as fingerprintJS or ThumbmarkJS.
- Familiarity with production ML systems, especially real-time inference or feature pipelines.
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.
- Remote position as indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, potentially commission.
- Base salary range of $217,000–$303,900 USD.
About Reddit
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable. Share, vote, and decide what matters in everything from breaking news, to fandoms, lifehacks, gaming, sports, health, and the internet’s cutest animals. With over 100,000 subreddit communities about every topic you could think of (and thousands more you couldn’t), whatever it is, there’s a place for you on Reddit. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out redditinc.com/careers.