Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit, Inc. is a community of communities that fosters open and authentic conversations on the internet. The Staff Software Engineer for Onboarding will define backend architecture and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the user onboarding experience, ensuring it is streamlined and personalized.
Responsibilities
- Define and accelerate the backend architecture for a newly onboarded user: the signal-collection systems that learn who a new Redditor is, the personalization pipelines that turn those signals into a tailored first feed, and the experimentation infrastructure that lets us iterate on the moments that decide whether someone becomes a lifelong user
- You'll help the team internalize that operating model: what it means to build for learning, how to balance velocity with reliability, and how to stay rigorous when moving fast
- You'll build and maintain deep partnerships with the engineering teams whose surfaces directly shape a newly onboarded user's experience: Relevance, Feeds, Notifications, and beyond
- Establish the instrumentation and experimentation foundations that let the team run rigorous A/B tests on growth levers
- Serve as the engineering voice in XFN partnerships with Product, Design, Data Science, and other Consumer platform teams
- Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across a complex, high-scale distributed system
Skills
- At least 7 years of experience
- A strategic partner, not just a technologist
- You're a mentor who helps other engineers level up
- You're deeply data-informed and logical
- Comfortable with growth-team ambiguity
- A focus on clear, transparent communication
- Experience with ranking, recommendations, and personalization
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
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation, and parental leave
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