Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering

Leyla; United States; Remote; USD 191.000 - 267.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Volunteer Time Off

Generous Parental Leave

Zusammenfassung

Reddit is seeking a senior engineer to join the Compliance Engineering team, shaping platform responses to privacy, security, and regulatory changes. You will partner with product, design, and engineering to deliver trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users and own key product areas end-to-end.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for processes and delivery in a fully remote environment across the US.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack.
• Experience as a tech lead on projects and teams with 3+ backend engineers.
• Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems under high load.
• Self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects preferred.

Aufgaben

• Shape the future of Reddit by adapting platforms to a evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users.
• Influence technical and product strategy and define a new product space.
• Own product areas end-to-end from design and coding to testing, experimentation, and launch.
• Lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives critical to Reddit’s business and platform integrity.
• Raise engineering standards, improve workflows, and mentor the next generation of engineers.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Go

Python

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Thrift

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

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.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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 salary range for this position is: $190,800 — $267,100 USD

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