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Backend Software Engineer, PDP Experience

San Francisco🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $164,000–$164,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building and maintaining the Comments page, one of Reddit's highest traffic pages, to ensure content viewing and conversations are appealing and intuitive.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Novel products and features for the Comments page serving Reddit's 130 million daily active users

Domain

Social Media / Large-scale Distributed Systems

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC, API design, distributed systems architecture

Preferred skills

Cross-functional collaboration, technical strategy, code review, developer workflow standards

Technologies

Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC

Responsibilities

Execute product and business strategy for the Comments page, contribute to the full development cycle including design and launch, participate in team strategy planning, establish engineering standards and best practices, balance speed with quality in building new products

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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