Senior Software Engineer, Site Defense

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7 days ago
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πŸ“‹ Description

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems to defend Reddit from DDoS, bots.
  • Analyze and evolve ingress defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infra.
  • Build systems to detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic in real time per request.
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Safety teams to balance security, performance, and UX.
  • Mentor junior engineers in their professional growth.
  • Contribute to ML-at-Ingress initiatives, including traffic classification models.

🎯 Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • Excellent communication in a service-oriented team.
  • Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention.
  • Networking fundamentals: HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, load balancing.
  • Kubernetes, AWS or GCE cloud infra experience.

🎁 Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare benefits and income replacement.
  • 401k with employer match.
  • Global benefits for workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
  • Family planning support.
  • Mental health and coaching benefits.
  • Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
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