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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
Reddit seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design and operate infrastructure protecting the platform from DDoS attacks, bots, and malicious traffic at internet scale. This role combines distributed systems, networking, and security work, requiring both hands-on engineering and mentorship of junior team members.
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Skills this role names
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What they ask for
Required
- 7+ years building and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Software development in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++
- Networking fundamentals including HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, and load balancing
- Experience building and maintaining fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice to have
- DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, or abuse prevention systems experience
- Anti-abuse frameworks and bot scoring systems (ReCaptcha, Datadome, Turnstile)
- Browser fingerprinting frameworks (fingerprintJS, ThumbmarkJS)
- Familiarity with ML systems in production, particularly real-time inference or feature pipelines