5 hours ago
Base Salary
$191k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Adapt Reddit’s platforms to evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to build trusted, compliant user experiences.
- Own product areas and shape strategy from technical design and coding through testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- Lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives critical to Reddit’s business and platform integrity.
- Improve engineering workflows and standards while mentoring engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience across multiple backend areas, including databases, networking, and efficient computing.
- Experience with Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Experience serving as a technical lead on projects and teams with at least three backend engineers.
- Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.
- Strong self-direction, innovation, action orientation, and comfort working in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical audiences in a fully remote environment.
- Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.
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 work environment.
Tech Stack
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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.