Senior Software Engineer, Presence - Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

The Presence org enriches Reddit ’s ecosystem across two core workstreams: building a thriving network for high-value professionals (businesses, publishers, and creators) and enabling youth engagement on the platform.

The Reddit Pro team’s mission is to empower brands, publishers, organizations and professionals to create engaging content for our communities while growing their presence on Reddit through Reddit Pro. Reddit Pro is an ongoing initiative that offers advanced tooling for businesses that unlocks the power of Reddit ’s 100k active communities & conversations – where opinions are formed and decisions are made. Longer term, businesses will also be able to build on this deep relationship with their Reddit communities by leveraging complementary monetized solutions from Reddit .

The Youth Experience team’s mission is to make knowledge and communities accessible safely and thoughtfully for younger audiences while protecting Reddit ’s freedom to operate and innovate. We are responsible for building age-appropriate experiences and fostering the safety and privacy of teen users.

This is a high impact role where you will be involved in technical & product strategy and have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new product space.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes for backend development.
• Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.

Who You Might Be:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed sy