Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

Experimentation Platform

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SQL
React
AWS
TypeScript
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Postgres
Azure
BigQuery
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Toronto
Vancouver

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Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

Salary not provided
SQL
React
AWS
TypeScript
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Postgres
Azure
BigQuery
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Toronto
Vancouver

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship, professional Software Development experience
  • Proficiency in front-end and/or backend technologies, including TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Angular, Lit), Python or Golang
  • Experience building or using A/B testing infrastructure as well as building analytics tools or data products
  • Experience with Postgres/SQL database systems, ideally applied in a large-scale data analysis product (Google BigQuery preferred)
  • Some familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Demonstrated experience in developing end-to-end web applications, from database design to user interface implementation
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate front-end and/or backend systems efficiently
  • Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and negotiate complex requirements with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

  • Technical leadership experience with a data analysis platform. Understanding of the basics of A/B testing, experimentation, feature rollout, and dynamic configuration
  • Demonstrated ability to lead a team of developers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support
  • Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred

What the job involves

  • We are hiring a Staff Engineer, who will play a critical role in making Reddit’s experimentation platform world-class
  • We seek a candidate who can bridge the gap between our user-facing features and the underlying infrastructure
  • Ultimately, this Engineer role will drive the Experimentation Platform Team’s mission to accelerate innovation and growth through actionable, opinionated, and trustworthy A/B testing
  • This role spans a wide variety of responsibilities, ranging from building new experimentation platform features, architecting frontend infrastructure, and directing the evolution and adoption of best practices and standards that support experimentation across all Reddit teams and organizations
  • You will be instrumental in architecting, implementing, and maintaining a state-of-the-art experimentation platform that powers experimentation across all of Reddit
  • This includes, but is not limited to, building new features into our A/B testing experimentation platforms, building new data products related to experimentation, working cross-functionally to find solutions for the needs of different teams, and improving monitoring and alerting
  • Design, develop, scale, and support Reddit’s Experimentation Platform
  • Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on live site reliability, trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams
  • Increase developer efficiency through automation, improved signals, workflow streamlining and system optimization
  • Collaborate cross functionally within the Experimentation Platform Team and across the whole company to find technical solutions to complex design challenges
  • Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, and deployment

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

57% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

  • Paid volunteer time off
  • 4+ months paid parental leave
  • Personal and professional development stipend
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Make something people love
  • Evolve
  • Work hard
  • Default open

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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