Senior Backend Engineer, Notifications Foundation

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Backend Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in building the notification infrastructure that drives user engagement. This innovative firm is looking for someone with extensive software engineering experience to enhance their scalable platform. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with diverse teams to innovate and impact millions of users worldwide. If you're passionate about technology and eager to evolve in your career, this role offers a unique chance to contribute to a dynamic and growing organization.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

Generous Time Off

Parental Leave

Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in a production-level environment.
• Expertise in optimizing backend performance and scaling systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build capabilities within the notifications system.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate on core products.

Skills

Software Engineering

Backend Performance Optimization

Distributed Systems

Collaboration Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer, Notifications Foundation

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're remote friendly.

Notifications is responsible for several of the company’s major product surface areas that drive a significant portion of Reddit’s user growth. We deliver over half a billion push notifications and emails to Reddit users every day. We are hiring a backend engineer to join the foundation team of the notifications org, which builds the notification infrastructure that makes all this possible.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build capabilities within our notifications system, creating a scalable platform for the rest of Reddit Engineering. As a member of the growth organization, you’ll also have the opportunity to iterate on our core notifications products to realize impact at a high scale. We work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning, and Data Science to innovate new ideas that express the goodness of Reddit to our users. With our small focused team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with expertise in one or more of the following:
  • 5+ years of professional experience in a production-level environment
  • Working on services and database systems that scale to millions of users or 100k req/s scale
  • Experience with diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, especially in regards to increasing throughput, stability, or automated scaling.
  • Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience
• A past track record of quality, for example:
  • Enabling a testing culture, such as unit testing, setting up load testing frameworks, or enabling local testing or other automated testing.
  • Structurally improving the resiliency and fault tolerance of systems or code
• Collaboration skills: you work well with a team and help level-up those around you.
  • You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, mentorship, negotiating conflict, or engineering culture improvements.
• You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve.

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. 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, a 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [e-mail].

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