Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding

What You'll Do

• Foster and Guide the Technical Strategy for Onboarding
  Define and accelerate the backend architecture for a newly onboarded user: the signal-collection systems that learn who a new Redditor is, the personalization pipelines that turn those signals into a tailored first feed, and the experimentation infrastructure that lets us iterate on the moments that decide whether someone becomes a lifelong user. You won't be following a roadmap; you'll shape how we build the systems that compound for every user's lifetime.
• Partner With the EM to Cultivate a Growth Engineering Mindset
  Growth teams operate differently than platform teams. We prioritize experimentation and iteration, which means sometimes we throw things away to move faster. You'll help the team internalize that operating model: what it means to build for learning, how to balance velocity with reliability, and how to stay rigorous when moving fast.
• Scale Impact Through Collaborative Engineering
  You'll build and maintain deep partnerships with the engineering teams whose surfaces directly shape a newly onboarded user's experience: Relevance, Feeds, Notifications, and beyond. Many of these collaborations will touch ML-powered systems that surface the right content to the right users. You'll be the bridge that ensures Onboarding has a technical representation for the team and a collaborative influence on their roadmaps.
• Instrument, Measure, and Iterate
  Establish the instrumentation and measurement frameworks to ensure every change can be evaluated with rigor, enabling rapid iteration on onboarding flows.