Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefits program

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help shape compliance engineering platforms and build trusted experiences for millions of users. You will design and implement distributed services, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design teams across the company.

This role emphasizes leadership on cross-functional projects, ownership from design through launch, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced, fully remote environments. Reddit offers a competitive package and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development experience across databases, networking and computing.
• Experience designing distributed systems under high load.
• Self-directed, innovative, and able to work in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication across remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of Reddit by adapting platforms to evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users.
• Join a highly visible team to influence technical and product strategy and define a new product space.
• Own product areas and drive end-to-end design, coding, testing and launch.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives critical to Reddit’s platform integrity.
• Raise engineering standards, improve workflows, and mentor the next generation of engineers.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

GraphQL

Thrift

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Compliance Engineering team is responsible for preparing Reddit’s platforms for evolving regulatory requirements. We’re building products that establish the foundation of trust in the Reddit platform, while partnering closely with teams across the company to ensure our platforms and features meet the highest standards. Engineers on this team will thrive in dynamic, ambiguous problem spaces and work across multiple domains and technology stacks.

What You’ll Do:

• Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users
• Join a highly visible team where you’ll influence both technical and product strategy, and help define an entirely new product space
• Own product areas and shape strategy end-to-end: from technical design and coding to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to Reddit’s business and platform integrity
• Raise the bar for engineering by improving workflows, setting standards, and mentoring the next generation of engineers

Qualifications for this role:

• 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to efficient computing. We develop with Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL and deploy to Docker/k8s on AWS.
• Experience as a tech lead on projects and teams with 3+ backend engineers
• Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.
• You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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