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At Reddit we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Anti-Evil is a small and scrappy org, working closely with ops to defend Reddit’s integrity by fighting spam, abuse, bots and fraud.
Safety Actioning is a backend team within Anti-evil that builds services to action against policy violating content and policy violating users. Our future projects include building out automation over an actioning platform layer that will leverage signals from Machine Learning models, data systems and user insights from our sibling teams. Come join us in our mission to foster a safer platform for Reddit’s user base!
If ensuring the safety of users on one of the most popular website in the US excites you, then you’ve found the right place. We’re a small, tightly knit company with one of the highest user: employee ratios in the industry, giving you a tremendous opportunity for both scope and impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement the anti-evil infrastructure at Reddit.
- Increase efficiency through automation, improved signals, workflow streamlining and system optimization.
- Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deployment.
- Collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex safety challenges.
What We Can Expect From You:
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer developing production code.
- Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python or Go (Python/Go experience preferred)
- Designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining highly complex systems and subsystems
- Results-oriented with a strong customer and business focus.
- Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
- Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is: $183,500 - $275,300
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