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$190,800 – $267,100
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 senior backend engineer to design and build developer productivity platforms, AI-powered tooling, and infrastructure improvements that serve hundreds of engineers across the company. This role suits someone with deep distributed systems experience who enjoys solving internal user problems and can balance ambitious product goals with engineering fundamentals.
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Skills this role names
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years post-graduate software development experience
- 3+ years building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong Go proficiency in production systems
- Experience designing maintainable APIs
- Experience building platforms or developer tools used by other engineers
- Infrastructure, Kubernetes, or cloud provider experience
- Hands-on use of AI-powered developer tools
- Track record leading large cross-team projects
- User-focused mindset with internal user empathy
- Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Self-directed, action-oriented approach
Nice to have
- Developer experience, productivity, or internal platforms background
- Tools or workflows built for internal engineering users
- CI/CD system building or extension experience
- GitHub Enterprise Server or large-scale source control experience
- Python experience
- Ability to measure platform impact through experimentation and analytics