Backend Engineer, Moderation Enforcement
About this role
Reddit seeks a Backend Engineer to build moderation enforcement systems that enable community leaders to manage large-scale platform interactions. You'll work across product, design, and engineering to develop features supporting one of the internet's largest communities through the full development lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Design and implement backend systems for moderation enforcement across 100,000+ communities
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams on strategy and execution
- Contribute to technical design, development, testing, and launch of moderation features
- Review code and design documents, provide feedback on product specifications
- Participate in experimentation and analysis to measure feature impact
- Maintain and improve API design for scalability and maintainability
What they're looking for
- Go or Python (required)
- REST, GraphQL, gRPC, or Thrift API design
- Full-stack development lifecycle experience
- System design and architecture for high-scale platforms
- Code review and technical documentation
- Remote collaboration and communication
- Problem-solving in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Rust or Ruby (preferred)
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
- Generous paid parental leave
- Mental health and coaching support
- Family planning and gender-affirming care
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Reddit builds and operates a large-scale platform serving millions of users, with data infrastructure, advertising systems, and notification products at its core. The company is hiring Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Fullstack Engineers to enhance data pipelines, optimize ad delivery, and scale user-facing features.
- Website
- reddit.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you designed an API that needed to scale to millions of requests—what challenges did you face?
- How do you approach building features in a fully remote environment with cross-functional teams?