Staff Backend Engineer, Safety

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as youd like.

The Safety and Moderation organization builds the tools that help moderators keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable. Moderators are community leaders and tastemakers; our job is to give them fast, reliable, and intuitive tooling so they can focus on cultivating great communities.

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern enterprise engineering languages, technologies, and practices to help us ship high-impact features and improvements for moderators.

You’ll work closely with other frontend and mobile engineers, along with product and design partners in the Safety and Moderation organization.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

Responsibilities

Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.

• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define