Job Overview
Location
Remote - British Columbia, Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 14, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Staff Engineer on the Ads Trust, Fraud and Safety team at Reddit, you will be the primary technical driver for building a robust, automated ecosystem that prioritizes brand suitability and ads integrity, directly contributing to user safety and advertiser trust across one of the internet’s largest platforms.
- • Day to day, you will steer high-leverage projects, architect a 2+ year technical roadmap for fraud detection, build world-class systems, mentor technical contributors, collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Policy, Legal, and Safety teams, and evolve your expertise by staying current with industry trends in fraud detection.
- • The Ad Safety team is expanding its fraud counter-measures by consolidating identification and enforcement of deceptive ads (malware, phishing, scams) and billing fraud into a centralized platform, integrating signals across surfaces and third-party vendors to enable pre-emptive detection of malicious intent and unlock revenue growth.
- • In this role, you will achieve technical leadership by owning the long-term strategy for the fraud detection platform, driving consensus across stakeholders, and establishing yourself as a force multiplier who elevates team performance through empathetic technical excellence and proactive problem-solving.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading large-scale technical projects requiring cross-team and cross-functional collaboration
- • Strong experience in large-scale distributed systems and developing highly scalable and reliable backend services
- • Expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Java, or C++) and ability to grow expertise in Python and Go
- • Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders with different priorities, and aggressively prioritize to execute effectively
- • Excellent communication skills to drive consensus, navigate disagreements, and influence decisions across the engineering organization
- • A bias for action: ability to identify what needs to be done, take initiative without waiting for direction, and see tasks through to completion
🏖️ Benefits
- • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- • Family Planning Support
- • Gender-Affirming Care
- • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- • Generous paid Parental Leave
- • Paid Volunteer time off
Skills & Technologies
About Reddit Inc.
Reddit is a social media platform where users submit, vote, and comment on content organized into topic-based communities called subreddits. Founded in 2005, it offers forums for news, hobbies, advice, and discussion, enabling real-time conversations and content ranking through upvotes and downvotes. With millions of daily active users globally, Reddit hosts diverse communities moderated by volunteers, supports multimedia posts, and provides advertising and premium membership options. The platform emphasizes user anonymity, community governance, and crowdsourced information, making it a hub for niche interests, viral content, and public discourse. Reddit went public in 2024 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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