Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering at Reddit

Role overview

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit.

This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:

Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Content Contribution

Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools

Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding.

Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization

Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production systems for consumer product engineering.
• Collaborate with product, design, data and engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Translate community and business needs into maintainable software.

Qualifications

• Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++).
• API Design: Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable, maintainable APIs using GraphQL , REST , or gRPC for native mobile and web applications.
• Data & Caching: Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis , Cassandra , PostgreSQL ).
• Modern Workflows: Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.
• This job posting may span more than one career level.
• In addition to base salary, 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. Additionally, 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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
• To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
• The base salary range for this position is:
• In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
• During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors .
• Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Technology in this role

• Python: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• Java: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• C++: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• Go: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• Kotlin: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• C: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• Rust: Languages: Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, .
• PostgreSQL: Data & Caching: Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis , Cassandra , PostgreSQL .
• Redis: Data & Caching: Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis , Cassandra , PostgreSQL .
• GraphQL: API Design: Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable, maintainable APIs using GraphQL , REST , or gRPC for native mobile and web .
• gRPC: API Design: Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable, maintainable APIs using GraphQL , REST , or gRPC for native mobile and web .
• Android: • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical .
• iOS: • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical .
• BigQuery: Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering .
• Cassandra: Data & Caching: Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., Redis , Cassandra , PostgreSQL .

Benefits

• Remote arrangement and location as stated in the official posting.
• Opportunity to work on products used by Reddit communities and advertisers.

About Reddit

Reddit is a community platform with products for communities, content and advertising.

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