Jobs / United States / Reddit INC
Software Engineer
Reddit INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Reddit INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles21 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $220k–$300k, median $260k. Most were filed at wage level IV (48%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 . Job Duties: Collaborate with product managers to design and implement Ads products. Work closely with the platform and data teams while building new features. Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations. Build extensible components that align with the product objectives. Support day-to-day project management tasks, including communicating project updates, managing project timelines, and overseeing project execution. Design, develop, and operate backend microservices and APIs that power ads, including resolution, validation, and transformation across the advertising data models. Build and maintain distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems that serve high-volume production traffic, including data storage, caching, and instrumentation for observability and reliability. Design and execute A/B experiments and feature rollouts to evaluate product changes, and partner with data science teams to measure ad performance and inform product decisions. Full-time telecommuting is an option. Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Special Skills Requirement: Backend services design and development in Java, Go or Python; Distributed, horizontally scalable backend system design for high-traffic production workloads (e.g., real-time ad serving); Service-to-service API design using RPC or HTTP-based frameworks (e.g., gRPC, Thrift, GQL ); Deployment and operation of production services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon ECS or Kubernetes); Data modeling and schema design for relational and NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB), including query optimization and indexing; A/B testing and feature-flagged experimentation in production environments; Production observability instrumentation, including metrics, logs, and request tracing (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray), for incident diagnosis and resolution; Automated unit, integration, and functional testing integrated into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines; Backend system development in digital advertising technology, including ad ingestion, ad serving, or ad-targeting workflows; and Technical design and end-to-end delivery leadership of multi-quarter projects, including authoring technical design documents and driving cross-functional execution with product, data, and platform partners. Benefits: • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: applicationsreview@reddit.com at Req.# 1016.248.3. 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 posit