Reddit is hiring a
Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit as a Staff Engineer and play a critical role in making the experimentation platform world-class. As an engineering leader, you will have Reddit-wide impact supporting our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship, professional Software Development experience
• Proficiency in backend languages, including Python, Golang, Java
• Experience building or using A/B testing infrastructure as well as building analytics tools or data products
• Experience with Postgres/SQL database systems, ideally applied in a large-scale data analysis product (Google BigQuery preferred)
• Some familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Demonstrated experience in developing end-to-end web applications, from database design to user interface implementation
• Demonstrated ability to integrate front-end and/or backend systems efficiently
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and negotiate complex requirements with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, scale, and support Reddit’s Experimentation Platform
• Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on live site reliability, trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams
• Increase developer efficiency through automation, improved signals, workflow streamlining and system optimization
• Collaborate cross functionally within the Experimentation Platform Team and across the whole company to find technical solutions to complex design challenges
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, and deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical leadership experience with a data analysis platform. Understanding of the basics of A/B testing, experimentation, feature rollout, and dynamic configuration
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of developers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off