Careers at Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . This is a remote-friendly role. Reddit has a flexible first workforce. The Identity and Access Management team develops and maintains a set of mission critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for all of our millions of daily users and backend services. Some of our present and future challenges include: Building systems around consumer IAM to meet the needs of Reddit’s engineering organization and millions of daily users. Design, build and ship backend services powering experiences for one of the most visited sites in the world. Work with product management, security, client engineering, and backend teams to define and implement Reddit’s IAM vision and roadmap. In your day-to-day, you will: Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and execute on high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals. Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around IAM. XFN Collaboration: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering. Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities. Who you might be: 3+ years of experience designing and developing distributed backend systems IAM backend experience in either authorization or authentication domain Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go). Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP). High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization. Benefits: Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs 401k with Employer Match Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support Family Planning Support Gender-Affirming Care Mental Health & Coaching Benefits Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $164,200 — $229,900 USD 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit's Transport and Site Defense teams build and operate foundational infrastructure behind one of the largest sites in the world. These teams own how requests enter Reddit, how services discover and talk to each other, how traffic moves across clusters and clouds, and how Reddit protects itself from DDoS attacks, scrapers, bots, and other undesired traffic. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Site Defense team within Reddit’s Infrastructure organization. Site Defense is responsible for protecting Reddit at internet scale—serving as the first line of defense against DDoS attacks, automated abuse, large-scale scraping, and other network-level threats. This is a high impact role that sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, security, and applied machine learning. You will design and own the critical infrastructure that safeguards Reddit’s data from large scale attacks. You will: Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems that protect Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse. Analyze, develop and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers. Build systems to detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic in real time at per-request and per-user granularity Partner closely within Infrastructure and with Security, and internal Safety teams to balance security, performance, and user experience Mentor junior engineers in their professional growth. Contribute to the team’s ML-at-Ingress initiatives, including experimenting with models for traffic classification, bot detection, and anomaly detection Own services end-to-end, including design, implementation, on-call, and operational excellence Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis for large-scale network or abuse events You have: 7+ years of experience building and operating high throughput and low latency production distributed systems. Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++. Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company. Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale Experience with networking fundamentals (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, load balancing). Nice to have: Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems. Experience with anti-abuse frameworks and bot scores (ReCaptcha, Datadome, Turnstile) Experience with browser fingerprinting frameworks (fingerprintJS, ThumbmarkJS) Familiarity with ML systems in production, especially real-time inference or feature pipelines. Benefits: Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs 401k with Employer Match Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support Family Planning Support Gender-Affirming Care Mental Health & Coaching Benefits Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off Generous Paid Parental Leave #LI-Remote Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,900 USD 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Content Ecosystem organization fuels Reddit's contribution flywheel by integrating posting, commenting, community building, and professional platforms into interlocking growth loops. We lower the friction required to create content and guide new communities from day zero to a thriving state. Additionally, we consolidate professional presence into a trusted hub for creators while serving as the foundational shield for platform data defense and safety mandates. Ultimately, our goal is to move Reddit beyond consumption-only usage, driving daily active user growth by turning passive lurkers into meaningful contributors. We need a web client and mobile consumer product domain expert to lead the architectural overhaul of our post and comment composers across all platforms. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will define the multi-year technical vision for how users create content on Reddit. You will focus on continued modernization of our composers and building out new contribution formats, particularly the future of video creation and editing. By removing client-side friction, integrating intelligent posting/commenting user empowerment, and setting the standard for client performance, you will be the technical cornerstone for accelerating our global user contribution and content ecosystem growth. Key Responsibilities: Architect for Scale: Define and execute the org-wide client architecture strategy to support seamless video creation, editing, and uploading directly within our shared composers. Establish the patterns for how all future formats integrate into the client layer. Accelerate Product Roadmap: Build and scale new contribution formats natively within the shared post and comment experiences. Unblock execution for high-upside strategic bets designed to reduce identity-risk barriers for sensitive content and productize viral, low-effort creation formats that convert passive consumers into active contributors. Mentorship & Org Leadership: Serve as the technical anchor for the Contribution engineering team and influence the broader Content Ecosystem org. Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across Web, iOS, and Android platforms. Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool. Optimize Contribution Funnel: Lead the engineering of highly performant client infrastructure. You will tackle challenges like zero-latency rich-text rendering, resilient edge-optimized media upload pipelines, and complex state synchronization for offline and online editing to maximize global contribution success rates. Qualifications: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record as a Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer on consumer-facing mobile or web client applications. Client Architecture Expertise: Deep mastery of modern web architecture (e.g., React, TypeScript, advanced state management) with strong architectural command of native mobile paradigms (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin) to define unified client APIs and lead cross-platform engineering standards. Domain Expertise: Demonstrated track record of solving hard client-side performance and rendering bottlenecks at scale, building highly interactive features such as zero-latency rich-text editors, asynchronous media processing pipelines, or real-time state synchronization systems. Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence VP-level technical direction and navigate strict tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved. Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence with aggressive growth targets. Benefits: Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs 401k with Employer Match Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support Family Planning Support Gender-Affirming Care Mental Health & Coaching Benefits Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $279,000 — $390,000 USD 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Ads organization powers Reddit's advertising platform, enabling advertisers to reach highly engaged communities while helping Reddit grow its business. The reliability of our Ads systems directly impacts advertiser success, revenue generation, and user experience. The Ads Reliability team partners closely with Ads Engineering to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit’s advertising ecosystem. We help build and operate highly available services that drive revenue and maintain advertiser trust. We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the critical systems behind Reddit Ads. What you’ll do: Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems. Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity. Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards. Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems. Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents. Collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations. Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews. Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling. Help define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing. Scale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements. What We’re Looking For 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems. Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments. Strong cross-functional collaborations skills to lead and influence operational excellence. Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures. Strong software engineering skills in languages like general-purpose backend languages like Go. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services. Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response. Experience driving automation and operational improvements. Benefits: Comprehensive Health benefits 401k Matching Workspace benefits for your home office Personal & Professional development funds Family Planning Support Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off 4+ months paid Parental Leave Paid Volunteer time off Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $190,800 — $267,100 USD 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . As Reddit continues to scale globally, reliability and performance are more critical than ever. The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient. We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can influence engineering culture across the organization. What you’ll do: Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. Architect for Scale Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning. Reduce Operational Risk Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health. Drive Automation Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails Incident Management Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented. Influence Engineering Standards Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company. Mentor and Multiply Impact Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization. What We’re Looking For 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems. Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments. Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures. Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices. Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar. Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services. Nice to Have Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes. Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms. Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies. Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure. Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities. Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives. Why Join Reddit? You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform. Benefits Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support Family Planning Support Gender-Affirming Care Mental Health & Coaching Benefits Private Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits Personal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution Cycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,900 USD 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. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.