[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit, Inc. is a community-driven platform built on shared interests, passion, and trust, serving approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors. The Senior Backend Engineer will help adapt Reddit’s platforms to evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements while partnering across teams to build trusted, compliant experiences. The role owns product areas end-to-end, leads high-impact initiatives, and mentors engineers.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users
• Join a highly visible team where you’ll influence both technical and product strategy, and help define an entirely new product space
• Own product areas and shape strategy end-to-end: from technical design and coding to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to Reddit’s business and platform integrity
• Raise the bar for engineering by improving workflows, setting standards, and mentoring the next generation of engineers

Skills

• 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to efficient computing. We develop with Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL and deploy to Docker/k8s on AWS
• Experience as a tech lead on projects and teams with 3+ backend engineers
• Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load
• You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave
• Equity in the form of restricted stock units
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation, and parental leave

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