Latest Backend Engineering jobs at Reddit

Build and scale backend identity and access management services supporting Reddit’s users and engineering systems. The role requires distributed backend systems experience, IAM expertise in authentication or authorization, programming proficiency, and cloud infrastructure skills.

Build backend architecture and APIs for Reddit’s media creation tools, supporting video and image capture, editing, and publishing. The role requires 5+ years of professional software development experience, distributed-systems expertise, strong API design skills, and product-minded collaboration.

The engineer will build and improve Reddit’s media infrastructure for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video and audio at global scale. The role requires 5+ years of professional software development experience, distributed-systems expertise, and familiarity with media processing and streaming technologies.

Builds and ships backend products and maintainable APIs for Reddit’s Safety and Moderation organization. The role requires 5–8 years of software development experience, proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, API expertise, and the ability to lead and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and core infrastructure powering Reddit’s content experiences. The role requires 3+ years of production software engineering experience, backend programming expertise, database experience, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure.

Builds scalable backend and GenAI systems for ad creative generation, editing, performance optimization, and safety at Reddit. The role requires distributed systems expertise, production ML integration, and technical leadership across Product, Design, and ML teams.

Build and lead high-scale backend systems that help Reddit meet evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. The role requires 5+ years of backend experience, distributed-systems expertise, technical leadership, and proficiency across modern cloud and backend technologies.

Build and operate large-scale distributed messaging and streaming infrastructure serving Reddit’s services and ML, AI, and search users. The role requires 5+ years of internet-scale software experience, proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, and hands-on Kafka and Kubernetes experience.

Staff Backend Engineer building a highly available, low-latency developer platform at Reddit scale. Lead infrastructure and Storage-as-a-Service development, mentor engineers, and contribute across the full development lifecycle in a fully remote environment. Requires 7+ years backend/infra experience.

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable IAM systems for authentication, authorization, and identity at Reddit. Requires 5+ years backend experience with 2+ years in security-sensitive domains, strong knowledge of identity protocols, and mentoring skills.

Senior Software Engineer on Reddit's Storage Infra team, building and scaling large-scale distributed storage and caching systems (100s of millions of queries/sec, 100s of TBs) that power ML/AI/Search and core product experiences with high availability. Requires 5+ years internet-scale software experience and distributed systems expertise.

Lead technical architecture for Reddit's global media infrastructure, designing scalable systems for video/audio ingestion, processing, and delivery while partnering with ML teams and mentoring engineering groups.

Senior engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team building and scaling high-throughput APIs and media services. Requires 5+ years with large-scale distributed systems, Golang or Python, and media delivery expertise.

Senior engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team building and scaling high-throughput APIs and media services. Requires 5+ years with large-scale distributed systems, Golang or Python experience, and media delivery expertise.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Onboarding team, you will define and accelerate the backend architecture for new user experiences, focusing on signal collection, personalization pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure. You will foster a growth engineering mindset and scale impact through collaborative engineering.

Backend engineer developing microservices, distributed systems, and real-time data platforms for Reddit's advertising products. Requires 3+ years experience with ownership of features in Go, Python, or Scala.

Leads technical architecture for Reddit's global media infrastructure, designing scalable systems for video/audio ingestion, processing, and delivery. Partners with cross-functional teams to optimize pipelines, integrate AI, and mentor engineers, requiring 8+ years in distributed systems.