Senior Backend Engineer, Safety

Reddit

Location
Remote - United States
Salary range
USD $190,800 – $267,100 base
Workplace
Remote
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
8 weeks ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k at an employer this size for a remote role. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P3 · asks for 8+ years · posts $191k to $267k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 for a remote role.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Reddit's posting.

Backend engineering for the tools Reddit moderators use to keep communities safe, healthy and scalable. The Safety and Moderation organization builds this moderator tooling, with the aim of giving moderators fast, reliable and intuitive systems so they can focus on their communities.

What you'd do

  • Work with product, design and other engineering partners to execute product and business strategy for moderator features.
  • Take part in technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis and launch of features.
  • Review code and design docs, and give feedback on product specs and mocks.
  • Lead a team of engineers by setting standards, improving developer workflows and recommending best practices.
  • Coach and mentor engineers on the team to advance their professional development.

What it asks for

  • Five to eight years building software in a general-purpose language like Go, Python, Rust or Ruby.
  • Hands-on work with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, or Thrift and gRPC basics, and building APIs that are easy to maintain.
  • BS in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Ability to juggle priorities and keep multiple projects moving on schedule.
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.

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About Reddit

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About Reddit

Social platforms · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2005

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Network of user-created communities, moderated largely by volunteers.

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Reddit filed 61K moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.

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