Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

From the employer's advert: This role is completely remote friendly within the United States.

Employer listed it 4 days ago · Added 4 days ago

First listed 4 days ago and still open.

Salary

$217k to $304k per year

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
Contract: We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: 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.

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States, San Francisco"
Job description states: "U.S.-based"

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About the role

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

The Safety and Moderation organization builds detection, automation and tools that help keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable in accordance with Reddit Rules . In this team on safety, we focus on proactive detection of platform violating content and users so we can take appropriate corrective action.

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer , who has interest in using applied ML to improve our automated detection and applying appropriate enforcement. We are looking for an engineer who thrives in a dynamic environment, working across systems and product surfaces to drive impact.

This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

Responsibilities:

Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.

Contribute to the full development cycle: ideation, technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs,and help shape our roadmap.

Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.

Innovate on new solutions and continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.

BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.

Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.

Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

[Bonus] Applied ML experience for a product or business solution.

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

Requirements

·8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.
·BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
·Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
·Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
·Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Reddit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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