Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders

Reddit

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Salary
$217,000–$303,900 / yr
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Above market

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This role $260k
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This role pays more than 97% of similar roles. Most pay $164,437–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $189k for comparable roles.

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About Reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 72 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,900 across 66 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders

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As a Staff Software Engineer on Reddit’s Engagement team, you will play a pivotal role in fostering the technical strategy for community growth by defining and accelerating backend architecture that powers core growth levers such as new community discovery and member engagement. You’ll partner with the Engineering Manager to cultivate a growth engineering mindset, emphasizing experimentation and iteration while maintaining reliability. Your responsibilities include scaling impact through collaborative engineering with teams like Relevance, Feeds, and Search, ensuring technical representation in Reddit-wide forums. Additionally, you will instrument and measure growth levers, guiding cross-functional alignment with Product, Design, and Data Science teams, and advocating for engineering excellence across a complex distributed system. This role requires at least 7 years of experience, strategic thinking, mentorship skills, and comfort with ML-heavy products, including ranking and personalization systems.

Skills

Python Java Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD ML A/B Testing PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL Scalability Reliability Mentorship Cross-Functional Collaboration Data Science Two-Tower Models Personalization Recommendations Rapid Prototyping

What you'll do

  • Define and accelerate backend architecture for community growth systems.
  • Partner with engineering teams to build ML-powered systems for community discovery.
  • Instrument and measure A/B tests to inform architectural choices and prioritize efforts.
  • Guide cross-functional alignment in technical forums and roadmap co-authoring.
  • Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across distributed systems.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of excellence and learning on the team.

What we're looking for

  • At least 7 years of experience in steering cross-team projects.
  • Proven ability to work on ML-heavy products and design backend architectures.
  • Strategic mindset with deep data-informed decision-making skills.
  • Experience fostering a growth engineering mindset and scaling impact through collaboration.
  • Strong mentorship and communication skills for clear technical leadership.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving fast in a high-speed environment.
  • Expertise in ranking, recommendations, and personalization systems.

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