Shape the future of Reddit by adapting platforms to evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscapes as a Senior Backend Engineer.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Backend Engineer in Compliance Engineering at Reddit focuses on adapting the platform to meet evolving regulatory standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams to create compliant user experiences. Proficiency in backend technologies such as Go, Python, and AWS is essential, along with experience leading projects and mentoring engineers. This role is ideal for seasoned professionals who thrive in dynamic environments and are adept at navigating complex technical challenges. The position offers a chance to influence both technical and product strategies within a highly visible team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 68% of 149 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $175,000 across 62 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 40.3% of 504 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Thrift appears in 0.8% of 504 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Docker, Go, GraphQL, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Compliance Engineering team is responsible for preparing Reddit’s platforms for evolving regulatory requirements. We’re building products that establish the foundation of trust in the Reddit platform, while partnering closely with teams across the company to ensure our platforms and features meet the highest standards. Engineers on this team will thrive in dynamic, ambiguous problem spaces and work across multiple domains and technology stacks.
What You’ll Do:
- Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape
- Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users
- Join a highly visible team where you’ll influence both technical and product strategy, and help define an entirely new product space
- Own product areas and shape strategy end-to-end: from technical design and coding to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that are critical to Reddit’s business and platform integrity
- Raise the bar for engineering by improving workflows, setting standards, and mentoring the next generation of engineers
Qualifications for this role:
- 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack, from databases to networking to efficient computing. We develop with Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL and deploy to Docker/k8s on AWS.
- Experience as a tech lead on projects and teams with 3+ backend engineers
- Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.
- You must be self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You live to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.
Pay Transparency:
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.
Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.