Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding

Reddit is a community of communities. The Onboarding team owns the first experience every user has after signing up for Reddit. The team combines polished product engineering, ML-powered personalization, and rigorous product experimentation. This role defines and accelerates backend architecture, partners with engineering teams, and shapes technical strategy for onboarding.

Responsibilities

Foster and guide the technical strategy for Onboarding; 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

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience; Steered cross-team projects that solved tangible business problems; A strategic partner and systems thinker; A mentor who helps other engineers level up; Deeply data-informed and logical; Comfortable with growth-team ambiguity; Focus on clear, transparent communication; Experience with ranking, recommendations, and personalization; Proven track record of working on ML-heavy products; Ability to design backend architectures, retrieval systems, and inference pipelines; Understand nuances of candidate generation and scoring; Ability to partner with Machine Learning engineers to turn model outputs into high-impact product features

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs; 401k with Employer Match; Global Benefit programs; Family Planning Support; Gender-Affirming Care; Mental Health & Coaching Benefits; Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off; Generous Paid Parental Leave; Medical, dental, and vision insurance; Equity in the form of restricted stock units; May be eligible for commission