Staff Backend Engineer, Reddit

• 8+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship, professional Software Development experience
• Proficiency in backend languages including Python, Golang, Java
• Experience building or using A/B testing infrastructure as well as building analytics tools or data products
• Experience with Postgres/SQL database systems, ideally applied in a large-scale data analysis product (Google BigQuery preferred)
• Some familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Demonstrated experience in developing end-to-end web applications, from database design to user interface implementation
• Demonstrated ability to integrate front-end and/or backend systems efficiently
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and negotiate complex requirements with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

• We are hiring a Staff Engineer, who will play a critical role in making Reddit’s experimentation platform world-class
• We seek a candidate who can bridge the gap between our user-facing features and the underlying infrastructure
• Ultimately, this Engineer role will drive the Experimentation Platform Team’s mission to accelerate innovation and growth through actionable, opinionated, and trustworthy A/B testing
• This role spans a wide variety of responsibilities, ranging from building new experimentation platform features, architecting frontend infrastructure, and directing the evolution and adoption of best practices and standards that support experimentation across all Reddit teams and organizations
• You will be instrumental in architecting, implementing, and maintaining a state-of-the-art experimentation platform that powers experimentation across all of Reddit
• This includes, but is not limited to, building new features into our A/B testing experimentation platforms, building new data products related to experimentation, working cross-functionally to find solutions for the needs of different teams, and improving monitoring and alerting
• Design, develop, scale, and support Reddit’s Experimentation Platform
• Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on live site reliability, trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams
• Increase developer efficiency through automation, improved signals, workflow streamlining and system optimization
• Collaborate cross functionally within the Experimentation Platform Team and across the whole company to find technical solutions to complex design challenges
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, and deployment