Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering New Remote - United States

Reddit, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Mental health support

Family planning

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help shape compliant platform experiences for millions of users. You’ll work across Go, Python, and distributed systems, collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams in a fully remote environment.

The role emphasizes ownership from design through launch, mentoring teammates, and raising engineering standards while navigating a dynamic regulatory landscape.

Qualifications

• 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 operating under high load.
• You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills in remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of Reddit by adapting platforms to evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users.
• Join a highly visible team and influence technical and product strategy.
• Own product areas from design to launch, including testing and analysis.
• Lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives critical to Reddit’s platform integrity.
• Raise the bar for engineering by improving workflows and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

Postgres

Redis

Thrift

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Tech lead

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Thrift

GraphQL

Go

Python

Job description

Remote - United States

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.
• 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
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

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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