Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety (Remote)

Reddit

United States

Remote

USD 217,000 - 304,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits
401k with employer match
Global benefits
Family planning support
Gender-affirming care
Mental health & coaching
Flexible vacation
Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help advance automated detection and enforcement across a large-scale platform. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive system design and product strategy, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment within the United States.

The role emphasizes applied ML for product solutions, collaboration with product, data science, and operations, and ownership of end-to-end development from ideation to launch.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.
  • Bonus: Applied ML experience for a product or business solution.

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.
  • Lead a team of engineers, set standards to improve developer workflows, and coach and mentor team members.
  • Innovate on new solutions and continuously learn and improve technically and non-technically.

Skills

Go
Python
Rust
Ruby
Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help advance automated detection and enforcement across a large-scale platform. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive system design and product strategy, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment within the United States.

The role emphasizes applied ML for product solutions, collaboration with product, data science, and operations, and ownership of end-to-end development from ideation to launch.

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