Software Engineer, SWE Services
Remote job description
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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Location: Bangalore, India (office-based)
Team Description
The SPACE (Security, Privacy, And Compliance Engineering) team defends Reddit's employees and compute assets to make Reddit the most trustworthy place for online human interaction. We look for humble experts with a relentlessly resourceful and entrepreneurial "can do" perspective. If you work tirelessly to break into computer networks and just as tirelessly to ensure others cannot, we need you.
Role Description
Reddit is looking for a hands-on strong technical professional with the right blend of privacy, data, and development experience. You will partner with the Legal, Security, Engineering, and Product teams. You will help establish software development and data engineering best practices to support privacy by design and global compliance. This role will report to our Senior Engineering Manager, Security, Privacy and Compliance Engineering team. Culture is important to us and a learning and developing mentality is vital regardless of the work assigned.
If you are passionate about software engineering, privacy, and security, we need you. The ideal candidate is technically strong and has built proven products to support security or privacy teams.
Some of our present and future work include:
- Design, build, and implement privacy software products
- Design, build and ship backend services powering privacy experiences for millions of daily users.
- Translate privacy rules and policies into robust, scalable, reusable solutions that protect user privacy while enabling safe, transparent use of data
- Deep dive and become an expert in a complex and heterogeneous codebase and cloud infrastructure to find and harden all data stores and microservices that process personal data
- Knowledge of large scale cloud analytics and storage technologies and SDLC best practices
- Comfortable in navigating unfamiliar tech stacks and working with new languages and technologies
How You'll Have Impact:
Privacy and Security is part of the Reddit DNA and we are dedicated to ensuring that our platforms, services, and products are built with privacy and security as core principles. We hold the privacy and security of our users as fundamental to our mission at Reddit. This role will support the evolution of security tooling and initiatives to protect user data. As a Backend Engineer you will support the development of security and privacy products.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and implement privacy software products
- Design, build and ship backend services powering privacy experiences for millions of daily users.
- Translate privacy rules and policies into robust, scalable, reusable solutions that protect user privacy while enabling safe, transparent use of data
- Deep dive and become an expert in a complex and heterogeneous codebase and cloud infrastructure to find and harden all data stores and microservices that process personal data
- Knowledge of large scale cloud analytics and storage technologies and SDLC best practices
- Comfortable in navigating unfamiliar tech stacks and working with new languages and technologies
Who we want you to be::
Bring your background and passion for engineering and privacy into this role which will support our privacy focussed programs. Successful candidates will have many of the following skills and qualities: If you are worried about technology and experience requirements in privacy, please do not. All we are looking for is smart, proven and technically strong individuals with excitement and potential to grow.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems, or a similar STEM field or equivalent professional experience.
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Deep knowledge of large scale cloud analytics and storage technologies and SDLC best practices
- Comfortable navigating unfamiliar tech stacks and working with new languages and technologies
- Experience with any of the following: Python, Java, Go or JavaScript / TypeScript.
- Proven verbal and written communication skills for technical and non technical audiences
- Experience in privacy enhancing technologies, security protocols, cryptography is desirable.
- Experience with data privacy requirements stemming from regulatory and legislative mandates including CCPA, GDPR, and state data breach notification laws is desirable but not mandatory.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to learn and research new technologies and standards rapidly, assess them for security and privacy exposures, and drive changes via code
Personal Skills:
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, technical writing, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with teams, be a thought leader and drive innovation
- Humble expert with a sense of urgency
- Skilled at taking complex topics and making them simple
- The ability to exhibit sound judgment and domain knowledge for multiple areas of expertise within the specialized discipline.
- Work independently and own projects entirely, both within the department as well as cross-functionally
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize and work to tight deadlines and manage your own backlog.
Benefits:
- Retirement Benefits (Employee Provident Fund scheme)
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Your salary will be commensurate with your experience
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 you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.
SummaryCompany name: reddit
Remote job title: Software Engineer, SWE Services
Job tags: analytics, Python, quality assurance
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