Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

About the Role

The Safety and Moderation organization builds detection, automation, and tools that keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable. In this team, we focus on proactive detection of platform-violating content and users to take appropriate corrective actions.

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer interested in using applied ML to improve our automated detection and enforcement across systems and product surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations, and engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep the platform safe.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: ideation, technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Review code and design docs, and help shape our roadmap.
• Lead a team of motivated engineers: set standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and coach and mentor engineers.
• Innovate on new solutions and continuously improve technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages: Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: self-directed, innovative, biased towards action, and thriving in ambiguity.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a remote environment, with the ability to communicate complex topics to diverse audiences.
• [Bonus] Applied ML experience for a product or business solution.