Senior Backend Engineer – Consumer Product Teams

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USA
Annual salary, USD
190,800 - 267,100
Job type
Full Time,
Job posted
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26 Apr 2025
Experience level
Senior
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12345 / 123

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The Community Engineering organizationโ€™s mission lies at the core of Reddit’s success as a platform: we build features that enable moderators to create and grow meaningful, destination communities. Moderators are a key pillar of Redditโ€™s success, and act as community leaders and tastemakers, ensuring thereโ€™s something on Reddit for everyone. With such huge responsibility, it is important that Reddit can empower mods, users, and Reddit to maintain a transparent, sustainable, and adaptable balance of ownership and accountability within their communities. Under this organization pillar, the Moderation Strategy team is focused on delivering automations for Moderators using the latest technologies to help build for the future of Moderation.

Reddit Pro – Publisher Experience

The Reddit Pro teamโ€™s mission is to empower brands, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit through Reddit Pro. Reddit Pro is an ongoing initiative that offers advanced tooling for businesses that unlocks the power of Redditโ€™s 100k active communities & conversations โ€“ where opinions are formed and decisions are made. Longer term, businesses will also be able to build on this deep relationship with their Reddit communities by leveraging complementary monetized solutions from Reddit.

User Economy

As a core member of Redditโ€™s User Economy team, you will be leading an exciting initiative that enables users to earn money through various Reddit products such as Awards, Premium, Collectible Avatars, and more. Weโ€™re redefining how users engage with and monetize their contributions, shaping the future of Redditโ€™s creator ecosystem.

You’ll drive high-impact projects, working at the intersection of backend systems, monetization, and platform scalability. We’ve successfully launched key features and are expanding the team to build new, innovative ways for users to earn on Reddit.

What Youโ€™ll Do

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Youโ€™ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
  • Move fast while balancing quality. We canโ€™t afford extensive processes, and we also canโ€™t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.

Who You Might Be

  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
  • 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
  • Experience working with ML teams and systems is a plus, but not mandatory.
  • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
  • Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
  • A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
  • A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
  • 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
  • Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is: $190,800 – $267,100 USD

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