This role pays more than
81%
of similar roles. Most pay
$198,000–$254,562
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$260k
versus about
$226k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
77 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,400
across 77 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding joins the Onboarding team to shape the initial user experience across all platforms. This role focuses on building and maintaining backend architecture for signal-collection systems, personalization pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure that determine how new users discover content. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, design, and data science to align technical feasibility with user goals. Key responsibilities include fostering a growth engineering mindset, managing high-scale distributed systems, and establishing instrumentation for rigorous A/B testing. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in ranking, recommendations, and personalization, specifically working with ML-heavy products including retrieval systems and inference pipelines like Two-Tower models. You will navigate the technical complexities of personalized feeds while ensuring reliability and scalability to turn initial user signals into tailored experiences that drive long-term engagement.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.