# Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense at Reddit

- Company: Reddit
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.redditinc.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8175131
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/reddit-staff-software-engineer-site-defense/

## About the role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Site Defense team within Reddit’s Infrastructure organization. Site Defense is responsible for protecting Reddit at internet scale—serving as the first line of defense against DDoS attacks, automated abuse, large-scale scraping, and other network-level threats. This is a high impact role that sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, security, and applied machine learning.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience building and operating high throughput and low latency production distributed systems
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale
- Experience with networking fundamentals (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, load balancing)

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