[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Community Builders @Reddit

Role Description

The Community Builders organization exists to empower anyone, anywhere, to create and steer a thriving community. We do that by making community building intuitive, sustainable, and rewarding. Our north star is thriving communities, which are places where moderators are engaged, members keep returning, and content compounds on itself.

The Engagement team is where we cultivate Reddit's community growth. We help new communities find their audience and build the kind of momentum that keeps them engaged long after the first few posts. Getting communities there requires a content flywheel that surfaces the right guidance and tools at the right moment to speed up organic engagement.

This is a Growth team. We move with urgency, instrument everything, and treat a missed activation milestone as a signal to learn from, not a number to ignore.

• Foster and Guide the Technical Strategy for Growth
• Partner With the EM to Cultivate a Growth Engineering Mindset
• Scale Impact Through Collaborative Engineering
• Instrument, Measure, and Iterate
• Guide Cross-Functional Alignment
• Raise the Bar on Engineering Excellence

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Define and accelerate the backend architecture powering the team's core growth levers.
• Help the team internalize the growth engineering mindset.
• Build and maintain partnerships with engineering teams.
• Establish instrumentation and experimentation foundations.
• Serve as the engineering voice in cross-functional partnerships.
• Advocate for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

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