Remote
US
$218K–$257K
💻Engineering
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Staff Backend Engineer, Safety
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 the tools that help moderators keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable. Moderators are community leaders and tastemakers; our job is to give them fast, reliable, and intuitive tooling so they can focus on cultivating great communities.
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern enterprise engineering languages, technologies, and practices to help us ship high-impact features and improvements for moderators. You’ll work closely with other frontend and mobile engineers, along with product and design partners in the Safety and Moderation organization.
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.
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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.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
USD 217,000 - 303,900
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Mental Health Benefits
Gender Affirming Care
Pet Insurance
Fitness Stipend
Wellness Programs
401(k) / Retirement Plan
401(k) Match
Equity / RSUs
Performance Bonus
Fertility Benefits
Parental Leave
Adoption Leave
Caregiver Policy
Learning & Development Budget
Conference Attendance
Mentorship Program
Relocation Assistance
Pay Transparency
Commuter Benefits
Student Loan Assistance
Unlimited PTO
Unlimited Sick Days
Company Shutdown Days
Paid Holidays
Volunteer Time Off
Medical Leave
Flexible Schedule
Home Office Stipend
Coworking Allowance
Internet Stipend
Company Offsites / Retreats
Employee Resource Groups
Team Events & Social Budget
