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This role pays more than
90%
of similar roles. Most pay
$186,975–$238,250
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$260k
versus about
$213k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
89 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$216,700–$303,000
across 89 roles with salary data.
The Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense joins the Site Defense team within the Infrastructure organization. This role involves designing, building, and operating high-scale, low-latency systems to protect the platform from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse. You will develop ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers while building systems to detect and mitigate malicious traffic in real time. Key responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, participating in incident response, and contributing to ML-at-Ingress initiatives for traffic classification and anomaly detection. Required skills include experience with distributed systems, networking fundamentals like HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, and proxies, and proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or C++. The work focuses on solving network-level security threats and protecting data from large-scale scraping and automated abuse.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.