Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly 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, Product 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, conversion funnels, and retention loops.
• 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, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently.

• User-centric mindset with an intuitive feel for product usability, interaction design, social dynamics, and user growth loops.
• Data-informed and hypothesis-driven, comfortable working alongside Data Scientists and PMs to design experiments and iterate quickly.
• 3+ 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 for native mobile and web applications.
• Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).
• Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.

The base salary range for this position is $164,000—$229,000 USD. 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. 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.

Apply via the provided Greenhouse link. Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.