Senior Software Engineer

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. The Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including Core Product & Feeds, Community & Presence, Growth & Engagement, Monetization & Conversion, and Identity & Security.

• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
• Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability.
• Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments, using tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior and conversion funnels.
• Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance.
• Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, and mentor teammates.

• User-centric mindset with an intuitive feel for product usability and user growth loops.
• Data-informed and hypothesis-driven, comfortable designing experiments and iterating based on real-time feedback.
• 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.
• Self-directed, innovative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in fast-paced product environments.
• Outstanding communication skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment in fully remote or hybrid team environments.

• Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++).
• Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC.
• Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).
• Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools.

Base salary range: $190,000—$267,000 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and possibly commission. Reddit offers medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off, and parental leave.

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