Android Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering

🏢 Reddit · 📍 San Francisco, CA 💰 $164,200 - $164,200 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Reddit Consumer Engineering organization builds and scales the products that Redditors use directly to discover content, participate in communities, and connect with others. Sitting at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and core user journeys, Android Software Engineers in Consumer Engineering work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Backend Engineers, and other mobile engineers to build, experiment with, and scale the experiences that help hundreds of millions of users discover, join, navigate, and engage with Reddit.

This centralized role hires across several high-impact consumer teams, including:

Core Product & Feeds: Home Experience, Recommendations & Content Discovery, Contribution
Community & Presence: Reddit Pro, Youth Experience & Teen Safety, Creator Tools
Growth & Engagement: Authentication, Notifications, Social Sharing, SEO, Onboarding
Monetization & Conversion: Paid User Acquisition, Conversion Funnel Optimization
Identity & Security: Account Management, Trust & Safety

What You’ll Do

Build and evolve user-facing Android experiences that help people discover, consume, create,

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Key Role Focus:

Handling massive unstructured social graphs, community dynamics, content moderation at scale, and high-concurrency traffic spikes.

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1. Proposing top-down, heavy-handed solutions that ignore grassroots community moderation dynamics.
2. Underestimating the caching and database consistency challenges of viral, high-velocity discussion threads.
3. Lacking resilience when discussing how to handle toxic content or platform abuse at global scale.

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I build scalable social infrastructure that empowers massive online communities to organize, debate, and share freely.

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