staff Application Security Engineer tech_leadership
$217,000 – $303,900
USD per year

About this role

Reddit is hiring a staff-level Application Security Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, LLMs. Compensation is listed at $217,000–$303,900 per year.

Role
Application Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Remote (United States)
Work mode
Remote
Department
Privacy and Assurance

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Job description

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

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit is hiring a Staff Product Security Engineer to make the secure path the easiest path for engineers and AI agents. You'll lead the design and delivery of secure frameworks, paved paths, and workflow-native controls that eliminate recurring vulnerability classes before they reach production. As AI-assisted development accelerates code velocity faster than manual review can absorb, this role exists to close that gap structurally — through guardrails, automation, and platform-level prevention that scale with the engineering org.

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