Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering
- Salary
- $190,800 - $267,100
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 20 September 2026.
About the role
Reddit's standard text
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 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.
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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:
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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:
$190,800—$267,100 USD
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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.
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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.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Docker
Rare in Reddit's other 122 open postings.
Standard for backend roles
AWS · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Python
Common in backend postings at any company.
66% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Reddit's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Reddit's other open jobs.
The team: Security, Privacy & Assurance HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 4 open in Security, Privacy & Assurance. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (4 of 4), Golang (3 of 4), CI/CD (2 of 4), LLM (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer, GRC posted Nov 3
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Security posted Sep 15
- Staff Product Security Engineer posted Apr 29
From the team and dates on Reddit's own job board.
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