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$217,000 – $303,900
Listed on Reddit’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This Staff-level role focuses on building security frameworks and controls that make secure development the default path for engineers and AI systems at Reddit. The position suits someone with deep product security expertise who can design platform-level guardrails, embed security into developer workflows, and help scale security practices across a large engineering organization.
Our summary, not Reddit’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years in software engineering, product security, or application security
- 2+ years at staff level scope and impact
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience designing and operating production systems and developer platforms
- Experience building secure frameworks or guardrails across multiple teams
- Ability to integrate security into developer workflows like CI/CD and code review
- Clear communication of technical and business impact to both engineers and leadership
- Comfort with fast-moving environments where AI-assisted development is central
- Experience with vulnerability discovery and remediation pipelines
Nice to have
- Experience securing AI/LLM systems or agentic workflows
- Familiarity with authentication/authorization systems and cloud-native platforms
- Track record mentoring engineers and raising technical standards in security or platform teams