Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense
- 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.