Reddit

Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering

Reddit$190K — $267K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years backend development experience in a multi-stack environment, including Go, Python, Postgres, and Redis.
  • Demonstrated experience as a tech lead for teams of 3+ backend engineers.
  • Proven ability to design and implement complex distributed systems under high load.
  • Self-directed and innovative, thriving in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
  • Strong communication skills for effective collaboration in a fully-remote setting.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Shape Reddit's platforms for evolving privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to create compliant experiences for users.
  • Influence technical and product strategy within a high-visibility team.
  • Own product areas from design to launch, including analysis and experimentation.
  • Lead high-impact initiatives vital to Reddit's business integrity.
  • Enhance engineering standards by improving workflows and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage and income replacement programs.
  • 401k plan with employer match.
  • Global benefits tailored to fit diverse lifestyles and needs.
  • Support for family planning and gender-affirming care.
  • Mental health resources and coaching available.
  • Flexible vacation policy and paid volunteer time off.
  • Generous parental leave options.
Full Job Description
The Compliance Engineering team is responsible for preparing Reddit's platforms for evolving regulatory requirements. We're building products that establish the foundation of trust in the Reddit platform, while partnering closely with teams across the company to ensure our platforms and features meet the highest standards. Engineers on this team will thrive in dynamic, ambiguous problem spaces and work across multiple domains and technology stacks.

What You'll Do:
  • Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape
  • Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users
  • Join a highly visible team where you'll influence both technical and product strategy, and help define an entirely new product space
  • Own product areas and shape strategy end-to-end: from technical design and coding to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch
  • Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to Reddit's business and platform integrity
  • Raise the bar for engineering by improving workflows, setting standards, and mentoring the next generation of engineers

Qualifications for this role:
  • 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to efficient computing. We develop with Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL and deploy to Docker/k8s on AWS.
  • Experience as a tech lead on projects and teams with 3+ backend engineers
  • Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.
  • You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
  • Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.

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


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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:

$190,800-$267,100 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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