Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance & Trust (Remote)

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; 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 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.