Software Engineer - New Grad

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active uniques, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Are you a beginner Software Engineer with a dream of both coding and browsing subreddits at work? Well, you're in the right place! Reddit is in search of a recent graduate interested in Software Engineering and Community Safety to join our Emerging Talent New Graduate program (and we guarantee you'll get to do some of both!).

The Moderation organization’s mission lies at the core of Reddit's success as a platform: we build features that enable moderators to create and grow meaningful, destination communities. Moderators are a key pillar of Reddit’s success, and act as community leaders and tastemakers, ensuring there’s something on Reddit for everyone. With such huge responsibility, it is important that Reddit can empower mods, users, and Reddit to maintain a transparent, sustainable, and adaptable balance of ownership and accountability within their communities. Under this organization pillar, the Moderation Strategy team is focused on delivering automations for Moderators using the latest technologies to help build for the future of Moderation.

Responsibilities:

Work on projects that impact the business - The Moderation team is a fullstack focused team - You'll gain exposure to how a real engineering team works, from sprint planning to shipping code (UX, Software Engineering, Data Visualization).

• Some previous projects include:
  • LLM User Summaries - AI-generated summaries of a Reddit user's profile, designed specifically for subreddit moderators.
  • Automations Platform - a unified, flexible system that streamlines and enhances the tools available to communities for content and user management.
  • LLM Based Rule Enforcement - system that leverages large language models to help automate the moderation of Reddit communities by evaluating posts against subreddit-specific rules.

Come work at our San Francisco, New York, Chicago or Los Angeles offices - complete with catered lunch Monday-Thursday, free snacks/drinks, and in person events!

Continue making Reddit history as a part of our next New Grad cohort - Be a part of a new community, meet other recent graduates and take part in our New Grad events.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative/CS major (e.g., mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, computer science).
• Graduated between December 2024 and June 2025, with less than 2 years of relevant professional work experience
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals (able to program your way out of a paper bag)
• Proficiency in at least one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Golang, C++, etc.
• Experience in full stack engineering, working with a database, social networks, or open source projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working at a start-up or mid-sized company
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Golang or Python
• Experience in moderating online communities
• A desire to work at one of our Reddit office locations (San Francisco, New York City, Chicago or Los Angeles)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Annual Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Snoo (Wellness) Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off