Staff Software Engineer – Site Defense

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $217k - $303.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Reddit, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Reddit, Inc. is a social media platform that acts as a hub for thousands of communities, where users can engage in diverse conversations ranging from breaking news to niche interests. It enables users to post, comment, and vote on content, fostering a vibrant online community. Millions of people globally connect and share their passions on Reddit, creating a dynamic environment for authentic human interaction.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems protecting Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse • Analyze, develop, and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers • Build real-time systems to detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic at per-request and per-user granularity • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and internal Safety teams to balance security, performance, and user experience • Mentor junior engineers • Contribute to ML-at-Ingress initiatives, including models for traffic classification, bot detection, and anomaly detection • Own services end-to-end, including design, implementation, on-call, and operational excellence • Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis for large-scale network or abuse events

🎯 Requirements

• 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, or C++ • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company • Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems • Experience with networking fundamentals: HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, and load balancing

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave • Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Generous time off for vacation and parental leave • Opportunity to opt out of interview recording, transcription, and summarization