Senior Software Engineer, Site Defense
$190.8k/y-$267.1k/y
Reddit, Inc.a day ago
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Summary
Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Defense to join their team in Seattle, WA. The role involves designing and operating high-scale, low-latency systems to protect Reddit from DDoS attacks and other network-level threats.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer in Site Defense, you will be responsible for building and operating systems that safeguard Reddit's infrastructure against various threats. Your tasks will include developing ingress-level defenses, detecting and mitigating malicious traffic, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to machine learning initiatives for traffic classification and anomaly detection.
About You
Required:
- 5+ 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 such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration with a service-oriented team.
- Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems.
- Experience with networking fundamentals including HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, and load balancing.
Preferred:
- Prior experience with cloud infrastructure systems like Kubernetes or AWS/GCE ecosystems.
- Familiarity with ML systems in production, especially real-time inference or feature pipelines.
- Knowledge of traffic analysis, anomaly detection, or large-scale telemetry systems.
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
Reddit, Inc.
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.
Seattle, WA