Reddit is hiring a
Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit as a Staff Engineer to drive the Experimentation Platform Team's mission to accelerate innovation and growth through actionable, opinionated, and trustworthy A/B testing. 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

Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, or Ontario and British Columbia, Canada