Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Reddit·Remote - United StatesRemotesenior

In short

→Construyes y escalas servicios backend para productos directos de Reddit con millones de usuarios.
→Trabajas en equipo multidisciplinario en áreas clave como descubrimiento de contenido, crecimiento y seguridad.
→Destaca el enfoque en experimentos A/B y métricas para tomar decisiones técnicas con datos reales.

Experiencia trabajando en equipos internacionales o con requisitos de inglés para comunica

In ~1 minute you get: who interviews you, the likely questions answered from your CV, and your CV tailored to this job. Free, no card.

🎧Land the interview? Bring the copilot. Our free extension listens to the live interview and flashes 3-4-word anchors from your resume and prep — glance, connect, talk. Get the extension →

What they ask for

✓5+ años de experiencia como ingeniero de software
✓Experiencia comprobada en diseño de APIs escalables (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
✓Dominio de sistemas distribuidos y baja latencia
✓Capacidad para liderar proyectos de end-to-end con influencia en equipo
✓Habilidades sólidas en análisis de datos y experimentación (BigQuery, HEX)
✓Experiencia trabajando con equipos multidisciplinarios (PMs, diseñadores, frontend)

Don't tick every box? That's normal — your free dossier shows your gaps and how to cover them in the interview.

GraphQLRESTgRPCBigQueryHEXFirebaseAWSKubernetesDockerPython

Who should you write to at Reddit?

Your free dossier identifies the people who'd interview you — their background, what they value, and how to reach out so you stand out before applying.

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 . The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Product Backend Engineers in Consumer Engineering partner directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Frontend Engineers to build, experiment with, and scale features that power how hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit. This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including: • Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Content Contribution • Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools • Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding. • Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization • Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety What You’ll Do • Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions. • End-to-End Delivery: Own the full software lifecycle for major product initiatives from technical design docs and API contracts to development, testing, rollout, and observability. • Metrics & Experimentation-Led Engineering: Design, build, and evaluate A/B experiments. Work with tools like BigQuery, HEX, or Firebase to analyze user behavior, conversion funnels, and retention loops to make data-backed engineering decisions. • API & System Performance: Build and maintain scalable APIs (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) and distributed backend services optimized for client consumption and consumer UI performance. • Technical Rigor & Modern Tooling: Establish engineering best practices, improve developer workflows, mentor teammates, and use modern, AI-integrated tools to ship high-quality products efficiently. Who You Are • User-Centric Mindset: An advocate for the user with an intuitive feel for product usability, interaction design, social dynamics, and user growth loops. You care deeply about why a feature is being built and its impact on the end user. • Data-Informed & Hypothesis-Driven: Comfortable working alongside Data Scientists and PMs to design experiments, establish core per

Looking for something similar?

Leave your email and we'll alert you when matching jobs appear.

Don't apply unprepared

We research who's interviewing you, tailor your CV and rehearse you live — first one free.