Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2025)

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Please Note: Deadline to apply is Friday, March 21st

Job Description

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.

Reddit's Emerging Talent program is ready for our next cohort of interns, and we need Software Engineering Interns to join our crew! 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 Software Engineering Interns to join our internship program (and we guarantee you'll get to do some of both!).

We're hiring for our Core Platform and Site Reliability Engineering teams which are backend focused and work on ensuring we have the most efficient building blocks (availability, latency & performance) to make Reddit run smoothly.

Responsibilities

Work on projects that impact the business. You'll gain exposure to how a real engineering team works, from sprint planning to shipping code.

Be mentored by experienced engineers from all backgrounds. From bootcamps to universities, small to medium and large companies, you'll work with engineers of many different experiences and levels. You'll have a formal mentor on your team guiding you throughout the summer as well!

Contribute to the betterment of Reddit, whether that be through making it easier to create content on Reddit, serving up relevant content to users, fighting evil on the site, improving our mobile apps, or a number of other projects we have in the works.

Come to work at our San Francisco office, complete with catered lunch, free snacks, and easy public transportation access to downtown SF!

Continue making Reddit history as a part of our next intern class. Be a part of a new community, earn some Reddit swag and get to know the city during sponsored outings over the course of the summer.

Required Qualifications

• Actively working towards a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Graduating between December 2025 and June 2026, with less than 2 years of relevant professional work experience
• Experience working with a database, social networks, or open source projects
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals (able to program your way out of a paper bag)
• You’re over the age of 18 and authorized to work in the United States
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A desire to work at our Reddit HQ in San Francisco during summer 2025
• Experience with infrastructure software engineering projects (comfortable using Golang, familiarity with distributed systems, kubernetes, and web architectures)
• Experience and excited to work on backend software engineering projects
• Experience working at a small start-up or mid-sized company
  
  

Pay Transparency: The base pay range for this position is: $50 - $60/hour.

Application Volume Expectation

Thank you for your interest in Reddit! Our team is small & mighty, but will be working to get back to you as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience! - Reddit Emerging Talent Team

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