Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering
$217K–$303K
Remote - United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on backend development experience.
About the job
Build and scale backend systems and APIs for Reddit consumer products, from product architecture and experimentation through deployment and ongoing performance monitoring.
What you'll do
- Partner with product, design, data science, and client engineering teams to design reliable, low-latency solutions.
- Own major initiatives end to end, including technical design, APIs, testing, rollout, and observability; build and assess A/B experiments.
- Develop scalable APIs and distributed backend services, improve engineering practices, and mentor teammates.
What they ask for
- 7+ 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 AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Experience with Redis, Cassandra, or PostgreSQL.
Pay
$217,000–$303,000 USD (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, AI may record, transcribe, and summarize interviews; candidates may opt out.
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