Senior Backend Engineer, Safety

EngineersOfAI; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern enterprise engineering languages and practices to ship high-impact features for moderators. You’ll collaborate with frontend, mobile, product, and design teams within the Safety and Moderation organization.

This high-impact role involves owning technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the world's largest sites while working remotely across the United States.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers and coach them to grow.
• Continuously learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Ruby

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GraphQL

REST

HTTP

Thrift

gRPC

Job description

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.

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

The Safety and Moderation organization builds the tools that help moderators keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable. Moderators are community leaders and tastemakers; our job is to give them fast, reliable, and intuitive tooling so they can focus on cultivating great communities.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern enterprise engineering languages, technologies, and practices to help us ship high-impact features and improvements for moderators. You’ll work closely with other frontend and mobile engineers, along with product and design partners in the Safety and Moderation organization.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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 H