Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com .

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history, and the Reddit Experimentation Platform is a critical accelerant of that growth. The mission of the Experimentation Platform Team is to help Reddit developers execute more experiments and measured rollouts with larger user benefits and less effort. As an engineer on the Experimentation Platform Team, you will have Reddit-wide impact. We are excited about empowering innovation at Reddit through actionable and trustworthy experimentation at scale. If you’re passionate about building products that empower communities, making their knowledge accessible to everyone,developing strategies for improving huge-scale products, building-testing-shipping in weeks (not months), and maintaining high-quality work-life balance, then Reddit will be the perfect home for you.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, who will play a critical role in making Reddit’s experimentation platform world-class. We seek a candidate who can bridge the gap between our user-facing features and the underlying infrastructure. Ultimately, this Engineer role will drive the Experimentation Platform Team’s mission to accelerate innovation and growth through actionable, opinionated, and trustworthy A/B testing. 

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Design, develop, scale, and support Reddit’s Experimentation Platform.


• Design and implement a UX that will help product teams conduct better experiments and make decisions faster.


• Develop and operate high scale data products with a focus on live site reliability, trustworthiness of analyzed data, and debuggability/actionability for feature teams.


• Increase developer efficiency through automation, improved signals, workflow streamlining and system optimization.


• Collaborate cross functionally within the Experimentation Platform Team and across the whole company to find technical solutions to complex design challenges.


• Participate in the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, and deployment.

As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be responsible for building and driving a vision for our experimentation platform with immediate impact on services across Reddit. This is a small team with huge impact and the opportunity to work with teams across Reddit. You’ll draw on your technical expertise and leadership skills to ensure our experimentation offering is cohesive and provides maximum value to an ever growing engineering organization. You’ll look for ways to bring in good ideas from other peers and also for opportunities to engage with org, presenting and sharing the team’s accomplishments.

What You’ll Do:

• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.


• Build: Execute on a strategy and a higher quality architecture and user experience for the Experimentation Platform UX end-to-end including workflows, readout controls, alerting/notifications, etc.).


• Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors. 


• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit.


• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on, post-grad, non-internship professional Software Development experience


• Proficiency in front-end technologies, including TypeScript/JavaScript with experience in component frameworks (React, Angular, Lit).


• Demonstrated experience in developing end-to-end web applications at scale, from API design to user interface implementation.


• Demonstrated ability to integrate front-end systems efficiently.


• Expert with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation.


• Demonstrated ability to develop scalable, well-designed software


• Experience working with an experimentation platform or measuring impact of FE work using experimentation or measured rollouts.


• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and negotiate complex requirements with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, or Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs


• 401k Match


• Family Planning Support


• Gender-Affirming Care


• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits


• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off


• Generous paid Parental Leave


• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

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 .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay 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.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

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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.

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