Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
$190K–$267K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience.
About the job
Builds and scales backend systems and product features that help Reddit users discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others.
What you'll do
- Partner with product and client teams to design and deliver consumer features across the software lifecycle.
- Build scalable APIs and distributed backend services, and improve performance, reliability, and engineering workflows.
- Design and evaluate A/B experiments and use user behavior metrics to guide engineering decisions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on backend development building and operating large-scale distributed serving systems in high-concurrency environments.
- Proficiency in Go or Python, or Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C++.
- Expertise designing and maintaining scalable APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC.
- Experience with high-throughput caching layers and distributed datastores.
Nice to have
- Experience or interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Experience analyzing user behavior and experiments with BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase.
Pay
USD 190,000–267,000 base salary
Tools
Go, Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++, GraphQL, REST
AI focus
Use AI-integrated or AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows. In select roles and locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI; candidates may opt out.
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