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Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY
Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're remote friendly.
Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet
Notifications is responsible for several of the company’s major product surface areas that drive a significant portion of Reddit’s user growth. We deliver over half a billion push notifications and emails to Reddit users every day. We are hiring a backend engineer to join the foundation team of the notifications org, which builds the notification infrastructure that makes all this possible.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design, build capabilities within our notifications system, building out a scalable platform for the rest of Reddit Engineering. As a member of the growth organization, you’ll also have the opportunity to iterate on our core notifications products to realize impact at a high scale. We work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning and Data Science and help to innovate new ideas to express the goodness of Reddit to our users. With our small focused team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Expertise in one or more of the following:
- 5+ years of professional experience in a production-level environment
- Working on services and database systems that scale to millions of users or 100k req/s scale
- Experience with diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, especially in regards to increasing throughput, stability, or automated scaling.
- Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience
- A past track record of Quality, for example:
- enabling a testing culture, such as unit testing, setting up load testing framework, enabling local testing or other automated testing.
- Structurally improving the resiliency and fault tolerance of systems or code
- Collaboration skills: you work well with a team, but also help level-up those around you.
- You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, mentorship, negotiating conflict, or engineering culture improvements.
- You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$190,800—$267,100 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].
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