# Staff Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $217k – $304k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, Rest, Http, Thrift, gRPC, API Design
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Lead backend engineering efforts for Reddit's Safety and Moderation tools, driving architecture, technical strategy, and mentoring engineers on a fully remote team. Requires 8+ years experience with Go/Python/Rust/Ruby and API design.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks.
- Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team.
- Continuously learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages: Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
- Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
- Entrepreneurial spirit. Self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. Love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
- Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

## 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

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