engineering
Posted May 7Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders
at Redditinc
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Define and accelerate the backend architecture powering the team's core growth levers: the systems that get new communities in front of the right people across feeds, search, and onboarding surfaces, and the infrastructure that drives member participation to build sustained content momentum.
- Establish the instrumentation and experimentation foundations that let the team run rigorous A/B tests on growth levers.
- Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across a complex, high-scale distributed system.
- Lead design reviews, establish patterns that the broader organization can learn from, and ensure that moving fast never becomes an excuse for accruing crippling tech debt.
Requirements
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
- That mission sits at the heart of Reddit's long-term health as a platform: a Reddit with more thriving communities is a better Reddit for everyone, and our job is to make sure the path to "thriving" is one any passionate person can actually walk.
- We use data, ML-powered signals, and product experimentation to identify and remove every barrier standing between a community and sustainable, self-reinforcing growth.
- If you want to build systems that measurably change the trajectory of tens of thousands of communities, and improve the health of Reddit itself, this is your team.
- Many of these collaborations will touch ML-powered systems that surface the right communities to the right users.
- Your architectural directions are traceable back to product and business outcomes, and you're fluent in the language of experimentation, funnels, and retention.
- Experience with ranking, recommendations, and personalization.
- You have a proven track record of working on ML-heavy products.
- You can design the backend architectures, retrieval systems, and inference pipelines required to scale them.
- You understand the nuances of candidate generation and scoring, and you can partner effectively with Machine Learning engineers to turn model outputs (such as Two-Tower models) into high-impact product features. Benefits:
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
- In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
Benefits
- Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency:
- 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.
- 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 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.
- The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,900 USD
Contact
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .
- To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
Additional details
- It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- The Community Builders organization exists to empower anyone, anywhere, to create and steer a thriving community.
- We do that by making community building intuitive, sustainable, and rewarding.
- We help new communities find their audience and build the kind of momentum that keeps them engaged long after the first few posts.
- We aim to connect users with content and conversations to which they want to contribute, no matter how niche the topic.
- These are places where moderators are engaged, members keep returning, and content compounds on itself.
- Getting communities there requires a content flywheel that surfaces the right guidance and tools at the right moment to speed up organic engagement.
- We move with urgency, instrument everything, and treat a missed activation milestone as a signal to learn from, not a number to ignore.
- Foster and Guide the Technical Strategy for Growth
- You won't just be following a roadmap; you'll shape how we build these systems from the ground up.