Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

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