Job brief: Staff Backend Engineer, User Safety

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Reddit's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (6 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $217,000 to $303,900 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote - United States · San Francisco
• Posted: 2026-10-21

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.

Conditions

• If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as oft…

Main duties

• Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our pla…
• Contribute to the full development cycle: ideation, technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and …
• Lead a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and hel…
• Innovate on new solutions and continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, Ruby.

Lines copied from the posting, not rewritten. "Preferred" or "nice to have" items are not listed as must-haves.

How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $212k a year (531 listings, 33 employers). This listing is 23% higher.
• Across Reddit's 136 open listings, 51% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Reddit hires

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