Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense
Reddit · BE Platform
- Location
- Remote - United States
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $217K–$304K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
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…
You will
Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems that protect Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse. Analyze, develop and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers. Build systems to detect,…
You have
7+ years of experience building and operating high throughput and low latency production distributed systems. Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++. Excellent communication skills to…
Nice to have
Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems. Experience with anti-abuse frameworks and bot scores (ReCaptcha, Datadome, Turnstile) Experience with browser fingerprinting frameworks (fingerprintJS, ThumbmarkJS)…
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…
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.…
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