Senior Software Engineer, Presence

Details

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Presence org enriches Reddit’s ecosystem across two core workstreams: building a thriving network for high-value professionals (businesses, publishers, and creators) and enabling youth engagement on the platform.

The Reddit Pro team’s mission is to empower brands, publishers, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit through Reddit Pro. Reddit Pro is an ongoing initiative that offers advanced tooling for businesses that unlocks the power of Reddit’s 100k active communities & conversations – where opinions are formed and decisions are made. Longer term, businesses will also be able to build on this deep relationship with their Reddit communities by leveraging complementary monetized solutions from Reddit.

The Youth Experience team’s mission is to make knowledge and communities accessible safely and thoughtfully for younger audiences while protecting Reddit’s freedom to operate and innovate. We are responsible for building age-appropriate experiences and fostering the safety and privacy of teen users.

This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy and have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner 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. Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes for backend development.
• Move fast while balancing quality: build brand-new products quickly while avoiding show-stopping bugs.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++).
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Experience with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.
• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment.

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 Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Compensation and Additional Information

• Base salary range for this position: $190,000 - $267,000 USD.
• 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.
• In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed and summarized by AI; candidates may opt out prior to any scheduled interviews. Reddit will collect certain categories of personal information during interviews and will delete recordings after making a hiring decision. See the Candidate Privacy Policy for more details.

Equal Opportunity

• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you need an accommodation during the interview process, contact your recruiter.