Senior Backend Engineer, Notifications Foundation

2 Hours ago • 5 Years + • $190,800 PA - $267,100 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build capabilities within the notifications system, creating a scalable platform. You will have the opportunity to iterate on core notifications products, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users. The role involves experience in production-level environments, working on scalable services and database systems, diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, and distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience. You will also focus on enabling a testing culture, improving system resiliency, and fostering collaboration within the team.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Expertise in production-level environment.
  • Experience with scalable services and databases.
  • Experience optimizing backend performance.
  • Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience.
  • Enabling a testing culture.
  • Improving system resiliency and fault tolerance.
  • Strong collaboration skills.
Perks:
  • 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

Job Details

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.

Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're remote friendly.

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet

Notifications is responsible for several of the company’s major product surface areas that drive a significant portion of Reddit’s user growth. We deliver over half a billion push notifications and emails to Reddit users every day. We are hiring a backend engineer to join the foundation team of the notifications org, which builds the notification infrastructure that makes all this possible.

 

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design, build capabilities within our notifications system, building out a scalable platform for the rest of Reddit Engineering. As a member of the growth organization, you’ll also have the opportunity to iterate on our core notifications products to realize impact at a high scale. We work closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Machine Learning and Data Science and help to innovate new ideas to express the goodness of Reddit to our users. With our small focused team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world. Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Expertise in one or more of the following:
    • 5+ years of professional experience in a production-level environment 
    • Working on services and database systems that scale to millions of users or 100k req/s scale
    • Experience with diagnosing and optimizing backend performance, especially in regards to increasing throughput, stability, or automated scaling. 
    • Distributed system and cloud infrastructure experience
  • A past track record of Quality, for example:
    • enabling a testing culture, such as unit testing, setting up load testing framework, enabling local testing or other automated testing. 
    • Structurally improving the resiliency and fault tolerance of systems or code
  • Collaboration skills: you work well with a team, but also help level-up those around you.
    • You may demonstrate skills in one or more of the following: written/verbal communication, project leadership, mentorship, negotiating conflict, or engineering culture improvements.
  • You embody our company value of Evolve: you view challenges as learning opportunities and continuously seek to improve.

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

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