Join Reddit as a Senior Backend Engineer in Moderation
Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. As one of the internet’s largest sources of information, Reddit is home to over 100,000 active communities and approximately 82 million daily active unique visitors. Our Moderation organization is crucial to Reddit's success, building features that empower moderators to create and grow meaningful communities.
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Moderation team, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world. This is a high-impact role where you will work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to build novel products and features that our users will love.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- Review code and design documents, provide feedback on product specifications and mocks.
- Set and define standards to improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and mentor engineers on the team.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
Who You Are
- You have 4+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, or Java.
- You have experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, or gRPC basics, and can design and implement maintainable APIs.
- You are familiar with databases like Postgres, Cassandra, Memcached, Redis, and tools such as Kubernetes, AWS, and Nginx.
- You possess strong organizational skills, can prioritize tasks, and keep projects on schedule.
- You hold a BS degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are self-directed, innovative, and thrive in fast-paced environments.
- You have excellent communication skills and can collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency
The base pay range for this position is $164,200—$229,900 USD. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- Vision insurance
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation
- Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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