Staff Systems Engineer, Reddit
AI Enablement and Productivity Engineering
$180.2-252.3k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180.2-252.3k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ Years in Systems/Security Engineering: Significant experience in IT, Corporate Engineering, Security, or Systems Administration
- Hands-on experience building or managing multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel, or equivalent deployment of Enterprise Grade Agentic Platforms (e.g. from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.)
- Deep expertise in identity protocols (OIDC/SAML/OAuth) with a specific focus on securing autonomous service identities—ensuring agents have scoped, temporary, and auditable access to SaaS environments
- Proven ability to design and implement microservices, manage APIs, and build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), all while adhering to industry-standard testing methods
- Experience implementing access policies via platforms like Cloudflare One or Zscaler to manage how AI traffic moves between internal networks and third-party model providers, as well as SaaS data connections
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a knack for mentoring and guiding junior engineers
- Experience communicating with third-party vendors to manage expectations and relationships
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and a collaborative mindset, effectively driving technical and strategic goals across different teams
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation that includes after-hours and weekend support
- You have a proven track record of integrating with the known SaaS vendors. For example, you know your way around Okta, Cloudflare, and Google Workspace
- You're always looking for ways to improve efficiency and can scale services using automation tools that utilize the latest AI models and trends
- You have top-notch analytical and problem-solving skills
- You love sharing your knowledge and mentoring others in your area of expertise
- You're a fantastic team player who's dedicated, a quick learner, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
- You can spearhead the design of a robust and scalable data infrastructure to support Gen AI solutions, ensuring seamless integration between data sources, pipelines, and storage
- You can offer hands-on data engineering support to teams testing Gen AI solutions; troubleshoot data issues, optimize data workflows, and refine data architectures as needed
- You can implement automation tools and frameworks to streamline data flow through the pipelines, guaranteeing data availability and reliability
- You stay current on Generative AI trends and can evaluate and integrate cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and practices to enhance our capabilities continually
- You're a natural leader who can mentor junior engineers and collaborating teams, fostering a culture of excellence, teamwork, and continuous learning
What the job involves
- Reddit Corporate Engineering is seeking a Systems Engineer to wrangle all the things AI for corporate engineering with a focus on integrations, governance and security
- This role involves ensuring seamless connectivity between platforms and Generative AI tools, keeping a keen eye on both the points of integration and the data moving back and forth
- You'll play a key role in shaping our Generative AI tool governance, establishing a platform-first approach to Agent and Tool creation with Generative AI, and driving forward what corporate AI can do for teams across the company
- This position will design and implement process and policy around the role of Generative AI within our software stack, with a careful eye to balancing risk while still driving enablement of the business
- You will be responsible for ensuring seamless and secure connectivity between our existing platforms and new Gen AI tools, with a special focus on software lifecycle management and implementing access policies through our secure service edge platform
- Design and maintain the infrastructure required for multi-agent orchestration, ensuring that internal AI agents can securely interact with Reddit’s SaaS stack (Google Workspace, Jira, Slack)
- Lead the deployment of AI-enabling infrastructure using Terraform and CI/CD patterns, treating system prompts, model parameters, and agent logic as version-controlled code
- Establish the standard for Non-Human Identity Management, ensuring every AI agent operates under a specific service identity with scoped permissions (RBAC) and loggable interactions
- Implement automated LLM guardrails across internal corporate data sources and AI interface points
- Secure and curate the catalog of internal MCP servers, preventing prompt injection attacks and ensuring secure execution environments for autonomous tasks
- Manage the "AI Unit Economics" for Corporate Engineering, implementing strategies for visibility into token consumption and spend across multiple platforms
- Collaborate closely with Security Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Support teams when evaluating software and during technical design phases
- Find and implement internal process and automation enhancements
- Serve as an escalation point for the global Corporate Engineering support operations team
- Help grow and mentor the global Corporate Engineering team
- Independently own and drive multiple projects and deliverables for the team
- Take part in evaluating, recruiting, hiring, and developing team members
Application process
- In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI)
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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