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Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense

US UTC-10 to UTC-5 $217k to $304k per year Full time Lead or Staff
Where you can live
Remote - United States
Working hours
Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
Salary
USD 217,000 to 303,900 per year
Posted
September 2, 2026

Summary from the posting

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Site Defense team within Reddit’s Infrastructure organization. Site Defense is responsible for protecting Reddit at internet scale, serving as the first line of defense against DDoS attacks, automated abuse, large-scale scraping, and other network-level threats. This is a high impact role that sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, security, and applied machine learning. You will design and own the critical infrastructure that safeguards Reddit’s data from large scale attacks.

You will:

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems that protect Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse.

This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Reddit's own career page.

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