Hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own architecture and development of Reddit's Ingestion Platform, building reliable, scalable connectors and control/data plane components for Kafka, BigQuery, S3/GCS, Iceberg, Flink, and more. The role emphasizes distributed systems design, operational excellence on Kubernetes, API and schema design, observability, and mentoring cross-functional teams. US-based remote role with a stated base salary range of $217,000–$303,900 USD.

Work cross-functionally to design, implement, test, and launch features for Reddit's web media player. Implement front-end UI components (React, TypeScript, Next.js) and backend APIs (Go, Python); optimize media performance and low-latency playback; participate in code reviews, design docs, experimentation, and mentor junior engineers. Requires 3+ years' software development experience and a BS in CS or equivalent.

Reddit is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Ecosystem to design and implement platform features, lead large technical initiatives, and build systems and tools that support external developers. The role is hands-on across backend, infrastructure, client, and full-stack components, involves mentoring and code/design review, and lists 6+ years of industry experience. Technologies mentioned include Go, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Redis, and relational/NoSQL databases. The position is remote (United States) and the posted base salary range is $217,000–$303,900 USD per year.

Reddit is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer for the Ads Creative & Recommendations team to own technical design and delivery of complex frontend features across advertiser workflows. Requires 5+ years building production web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, experience with frontend architecture, state management, component design, testing, API integration, instrumentation, and experimentation. Role is remote for the United States and includes a listed base salary range.

Join Reddit's Site Defense team within Infrastructure to design, build, and operate ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal layers. Responsibilities include real-time detection, scoring, and mitigation of malicious traffic, collaborating with Security and Safety teams, contributing to ML-at-Ingress initiatives, owning services end-to-end, and participating in incident response. Requires 7+ years experience with production distributed systems and proficiency in one or more general-purpose languages (Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++); strong networking fundamentals are expected.

Work on backend architecture and APIs powering capture, editing, and publishing of video and image content. Collaborate cross-functionally to design, implement, test, and launch scalable media processing pipelines and services; mentor junior engineers and contribute to developer workflows.

Remote (U.S.) Staff Software Engineer role focusing on media infrastructure: designing and implementing systems to ingest, process, store, and deliver video and audio at scale. Requires extensive software development experience (7+ years), strong distributed systems background, familiarity with video streaming protocols and compression, and experience with media tools like FFmpeg and GPAC. Involves cross-functional collaboration, API design, performance optimization, and mentoring.

Join Reddit's Content Platform team to design, write, and deliver backend services (primarily Go, with some Python) that power core content experiences (feed, posting, commenting, voting). The role involves improving availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency, diving into both Go services and Reddit's monolith Python stack, sharing on-call duties, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires 3+ years of software engineering experience and familiarity with databases (Cassandra, Postgres, Redis) and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP).

Remote (United States) Staff Software Engineer on Reddit's Observability team. Work spans monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing at scale (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Loki). Responsibilities include building and improving availability, scalability, latency, automation, contributing upstream to open source, and sharing on-call duties. Requires 7+ years developing internet-scale software and experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes. Posted base salary range: $217,000–$303,900 USD/year.

Join Reddit's Compliance Engineering team to adapt platforms for evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include partnering with product/design/engineering, owning product areas end-to-end (design, coding, testing, experimentation, launch), leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Technologies referenced: Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL; deployments to Docker/k8s on AWS. Role expects tech lead experience and designing complex distributed systems under high load.

Lead technical design and execution for Reddit's Video Ads and custom ad formats on Android. Drive full development lifecycle from discovery and prototyping to testing, experimentation, and deployment; establish Android best practices; mentor senior engineers; and collaborate with Product and Design. Requires 8+ years software engineering experience, deep Kotlin/Android expertise (3+ years), experience in Ad Tech or interactive rich-media mobile experiences, and familiarity with experimentation and data tools (e.g., BigQuery, Firebase, HEX). Role is remote (United States).

Strategic, hands-on Principal UX Engineer role on Reddit's Ads Design & Research team. Build production-adjacent prototypes, reusable systems and tools, and AI-native workflows; partner with Design, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to influence product direction and raise interaction, accessibility, and performance standards. US-remote; base salary range $245,800–$344,100 USD/year.

Remote (United States) senior role on the Messaging Infra team focused on designing, maintaining, and operating Reddit's large-scale streaming and distributed messaging infrastructure. Responsibilities include refining messaging infrastructure to support asynchronous service communication at scale, owning managed and self-hosted infrastructure for produce/consume requests, and building tooling and automation. The role requires 5+ years of internet-scale software experience and familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and one or more of Golang, Python, C++, or Java; Strimzi is listed as a plus.

IC leadership role to define shared client contracts, content model, GraphQL schemas, and UI primitives for Web, iOS, and Android; lead video/media creation, new contribution formats, experimentation, and responsible AI/LLM integration; focus on client performance, reliability, and cross-team adoption. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience.

Reddit is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its developer platform to design and operate highly available, low-latency systems and drive a storage-as-a-service strategy. The role requires 7+ years of backend/infrastructure experience and hands-on experience with Go, TypeScript, Redis, distributed SQL, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include building platform infrastructure and features (e.g., SQL DB as a service), contributing to design, testing, code reviews, and team strategy. Base salary range listed: $217,000–$303,000 USD/year.

Reddit is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on the Identity and Access Management team to design, build, and maintain high-performance, highly scalable authentication, authorization, and identity services. Responsibilities include selecting and driving high-leverage projects, improving architecture for performance and scalability, mentoring teammates, and collaborating with product, security, and engineering teams. Requirements include 5+ years designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems, 2+ years in security-sensitive domains (IAM, security, privacy, or anti-abuse), technical knowledge of identity concepts and auth protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), proficiency in a general-purpose language (preferably Go), and experience or interest in cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP). Base salary range listed: $190,800–$267,100 USD per year.

Senior engineering role within Reddit's Security, Privacy, Assurance, and Corporate Engineering (SPACE) org focusing on Identity & Access Management. Responsibilities include building and operating core IAM platforms and API integrations, improving observability, supporting compliance and audits, troubleshooting production incidents, and mentoring cross-functional teams. Requires 10+ years backend experience and familiarity with IAM tools/protocols (e.g., Okta, SailPoint, OAuth/OIDC/SAML) and technologies such as Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Role focuses on end-to-end development of forecasting and scenario models for advertising—connecting supply, demand, audience, and response prediction. Responsibilities include model design, evaluation (accuracy, calibration, uncertainty), deployment, monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration to improve advertiser planning and investment decisions.

Seeking a Staff Software Engineer (8+ years) to define and lead the technical architecture for Reddit’s global media infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing systems for ingesting, processing, encoding, storing, and delivering video and audio at scale; optimizing performance (latency, buffering, adaptive bitrate streaming); defining SLOs/SLAs; and mentoring multiple engineering teams. Role is remote in the United States; base salary range $217,000–$303,000 USD per year.

Lead development of Reddit’s media and core platform services, building scalable APIs and services for hundreds of millions of users. Responsibilities include designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, optimizing media delivery and processing, mentoring engineers, and working with technologies such as Python/Go, GraphQL/gRPC/Protobuf, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).