Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
Reddit · Remote - United States
About this role
**Reddit — Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering** Reddit is a community of communities—built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and ~130M daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. The **Reddit Consumer Engineering** organization builds and scales products Redditors use to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, partnering with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features for hundreds of millions of users. **High-impact consumer teams include:** - **Core Product & Feeds:** Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Content Contribution - **Community & Presence:** Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools - **Growth & Engagement:** Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding - **Monetization & Conversion:** Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization - **Identity & Security:** Account Management, Trust & Safety ## What You’ll Do - **Cross-Functional Product Architecture:** Partner with PM, Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency solutions. - **End-to-End Delivery:** Own the full lifecycle for major initiatives—from technical design docs and API contracts through development, testing, rollout, and observability. - **Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering:** Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments; use tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze behavior, funnels, and retention. - **API & System Performance:** Build and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance (GraphQL, REST, gRPC). - **Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling:** Establish best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently. ## Who You Are - **User-Centric Mindset:** You care deeply about *why* features are built and their impact on end users. - **Data-Informed & Hypothesis-Driven:** Comfortable designing experiments with Data Scientists and PMs, defining performance metrics, and iterating quickly. - **Technical Rigor at Scale:** **7+ years** building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments. - **Bias for Action:** Self-directed and comfortable navigating ambiguity while balancing velocity with reliability. - **Collaborative Communicator:** Strong communication skills and experience driving cross-functional alignment in remote or hybrid teams. ## Technical Qualifications - **Languages:** Proficiency in modern backend languages such as **Go** or **Python** (or Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++). - **API Design:** Experience designing and maintaining scalable APIs using **GraphQL**, **REST**, or **gRPC**. - **Data & Caching:** Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores (e.g., **Redis**, **Cassandra**, **PostgreSQL**). - **Modern Workflows:** Experience or interest in AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development. ## Pay Transparency - **Base salary range (US): $217,000 — $303,000 USD** - In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for **equity (RSUs)** and, depending on the pos
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