Senior Backend Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Product Backend Engineer within the Consumer Engineering organization to build and scale backend services used by hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate with PMs, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Frontend Engineers to ship reliable, low-latency APIs and services.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through observability, design and run A/B experiments, and help drive engineering best practices across multiple product teams, including Core

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

Java

Kotlin

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

Caching

SQL/Databases

Tools

Redis

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Product Backend Engineer within the Consumer Engineering organization to build and scale backend services used by hundreds of millions of users. You will collaborate with PMs, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Frontend Engineers to ship reliable, low-latency APIs and services.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through observability, design and run A/B experiments, and help drive engineering best practices across multiple product teams, including Core