# Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$303,900 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8204924?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety to join their Safety and Moderation organization. The successful candidate will work on proactive detection of platform-violating content and users, and apply automated detection and enforcement using applied ML.

Responsibilities:

- Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep the platform safe.

- Contribute to the full development cycle: ideation, technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.

- Lead a team of engineers, setting and defining standards, recommending best practices, and coaching and mentoring engineers.

- Innovate on new solutions and continuously learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications:

- 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.

- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks, and keep projects on schedule.

- Entrepreneurial spirit, self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.

- Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

- 401k with Employer Match

- Global Benefit programs

- Family Planning Support

- Gender-Affirming Care

- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

- Generous Paid Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- Ruby
- applied ML
- software development
- engineering

### Nice to have
- applied ML experience

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