Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit

Notifications Foundation

$190.8-267.1k

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units.

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

$190.8-267.1k

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units.

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of software engineering experience, with Expertise in one or more of the following:
5+ years of professional experience in a production-level environment
Working on services and database systems that scale to millions of users or 100k req/s scale
Experience with diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, especially in regards to increasing throughput, stability, or automated scaling
Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience
A past track record of Quality
Enabling a testing culture, such as unit testing, setting up load testing framework, enabling local testing or other automated testing
Structurally improving the resiliency and fault tolerance of systems or code
Collaboration skills: you work well with a team, but also help level-up those around you
You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, mentorship, negotiating conflict, or engineering culture improvements
You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve

What the job involves

We are hiring a backend engineer to join the foundation team of the notifications org, which builds the notification infrastructure that makes all this possible
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design, build capabilities within our notifications system, building out a scalable platform for the rest of Reddit Engineering
As a member of the growth organization, you’ll also have the opportunity to iterate on our core notifications products to realize impact at a high scale
We work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning and Data Science and help to innovate new ideas to express the goodness of Reddit to our users
With our small focused team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world
Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Paid volunteer time off
4+ months paid parental leave
Personal and professional development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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