Staff Backend Engineer, Safety

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.

This role is completely remote‑friendly within the United States.

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 and 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.
• Review code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast‑moving, and motivated engineers.
• Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, or coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non‑technical abilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general‑purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. Self‑directed, innovative, and biased toward action in fast‑paced environments.
• Love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross‑functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non‑technical audiences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401(k) 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 Benefit