Staff Backend Engineer, Moderation Enforcement

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer focused on applying ML to strengthen automated detection and enforcement. This remote-friendly role spans architecture, strategy, and execution across one of the world’s largest sites.

You will lead cross-functional teams, shape the roadmap, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable systems and impactful product features in a fast-paced environment. Equity eligibility applies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development in Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience working fully remote with cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, data science, and ops to implement strategy and keep the platform safe.
• Contribute to full development cycle from ideation to launch and review designs.
• Lead and mentor engineers; set standards and best practices.
• Innovate and improve both technical and non‑technical skills.

Skills

Go

Python

Remote work

Team leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

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 .

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 detection, automation and tools that help keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable in accordance with Reddit Rules . In this team on safety, we focus on proactive detection of platform violating content and users so we can take appropriate corrective action.

Staff Backend Engineer, who has interest in using applied ML to improve our automated detection and applying appropriate enforcement. We are looking for an engineer who thrives in a dynamic environment, working across systems and product surfaces to drive impact.

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, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: ideation, technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs,and help shape our roadmap.
• 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.
• Innovate on new solutions and continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
• 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.
• [Bonus] Applied ML experience for a product or business solution.
• 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

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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:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD

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