Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
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Reddit, Inc.Consumer Internet
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$217,000 — $303,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- GraphQLPostgreSQLPythonCassandraGogRPCRedisRESTful APIsBigQueryDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on backend development experience in high-concurrency environments.
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go or Python (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++).
- Expertise in designing scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC.
- Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores such as Redis, Cassandra, or PostgreSQL.
- Strong user-centric mindset with an intuitive feel for product usability and growth loops.
- Experience designing experiments and establishing performance metrics in collaboration with Data Science.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment in remote or hybrid team environments.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and balancing development velocity with system reliability.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers to translate user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
- Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to rollout and observability.
- Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments using tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to make data-backed engineering decisions.
- Build and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and UI performance.
- Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern AI-integrated tools.
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