Software Engineer, PDP Experience

reddit
Remote - United StatesFull-time$164,000–$229,000Posted Aug 26, 2026

About the role

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The PDP Experience team is responsible for one of the highest traffic pages on the platform: the Comments page. We know that conversations are the lifeblood of Reddit, so we strive to ensure viewing content and the surrounding conversation is appealing, intuitive and delightful. This is a high impact role where you will drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

What You’ll Do:

Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.

Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future. Don’t just come along for the ride.

Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, and recommend best practices.

Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.

Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Who You Might Be:

BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience in large-scale distributed systems.

3+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.

Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.

Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.

Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.

Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

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

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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:

$164,000—$229,000 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Responsibilities

  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering counterparts
  • Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch
  • Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks
  • Contribute meaningfully to team strategy
  • Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers
  • Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows
  • Balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products
  • Continuously learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Minimum of 3+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience
  • Experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • 3+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, Ruby)
  • Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC basics
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks
  • Excellent communication skills

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave

Skills mentioned

System DesignDistributed SystemsGoPythonRustGraphQLREST APIsgRPCSoftware TestingBackend Development

About reddit

Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable. Share, vote, and decide what matters in everything from breaking news, to fandoms, lifehacks, gaming, sports, health, and the internet’s cutest animals. With over 100,000 subreddit communities about every topic you could think of (and thousands more you couldn’t), whatever it is, there’s a place for you on Reddit. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out redditinc.com/careers.

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H-1B sponsorship history

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