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Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

Reddit · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Reddit

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, Go, Python, Rust, Ruby
  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
  • Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
  • Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment and the ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
  • [Bonus] Applied ML experience for a product or business solution
More about this role

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

The Safety and Moderation organization builds detection, automation and tools that help keep Reddit safe, healthy, and scalable in accordance with Reddit Rules . In this team on safety, we focus on proactive detection of platform violating content and users so we can take appropriate corrective action.

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer , who has interest in using applied ML to improve our automated detection...

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