Senior Software Engineer - Customer Risk Mitigation (Open)

Team Mission

Customer Risk Mitigation is about closing access and compliance gaps that would otherwise lead to total spend withdrawal. We safeguard advertiser trust and revenue continuity by embedding compliance-by-design across the ads stack.

About the Team

The Customer Risk Mitigation team builds customer‑first controls that give enterprise advertisers the confidence to invest on Reddit. Our mandate is to reduce risk for advertisers by delivering the identity access governance transparency and audit tools they need to satisfy their own compliance standards and internal reviews. We partner closely with Ads Policy Legal Privacy Engineering Trust & Safety Sales and Infrastructure to embed preventative controls and clear accountability into ad creation delivery and measurement.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Ads Policy Legal Privacy Sales and Infrastructure teams to translate requirements into resilient technical designs and measurable outcomes that reduce churn and protect revenue.

• Design and build IAM and compliance services enabling federated auth least‑privilege access models domain verification and multi‑business/org-level views.

• Deliver admin self‑serve tooling for compliance related configuration in Business Manager.

• Build transparency and auditability primitives (immutable logs decision rationales disclosures etc.) and region‑specific interfaces (e.g. EU transparency databases).

• Own services end‑to‑end: technical design implementation testing observability SLOs incident response and iterative hardening.

Qualifications

Role Specific Requirements

• Experience building reviewer/operations tools workflows and evidence trails for audits.

• Proven cross‑functional collaboration with Policy/Legal/Privacy and product stakeholders in ambiguous problem spaces.

General Engineering Requirements

• 5+ years backend software engineering experience building production services at scale.

• Proficiency in Go or Python

• Experience with service frameworks (gRPC/Thrift) and API design.

• Experience building distributed systems data modeling and event‑driven architectures (e.g. Kafka/PubSub) with a focus on reliability and performance.

• Experience with SQL/NoSQL datastores (e.g. Postgres BigQuery Cassandra) and caches (e.g. Redis).

Preferred

• Ads domain experience (ad delivery targeting measurement verification) or trust/safety/compliance systems.

Our Stack

Go Python; gRPC/Thrift; Kafka; Postgres ABAC/RBAC/ReBAC BigQuery Redis Cassandra; Kubernetes; AWS/GCP

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k Match

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and depending on the position offered it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) program with employer match generous time off for vacation and parental leave. To learn more please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function level and country location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190800—$267100 USD