Building Reddit

Apr 02, 2024 — If you’ve visited Reddit with a web browser in the past few months, then you likely landed on our new front-end experience, internally named Shreddit. This new implementation took years to finish and the effort of many engineers, but the end result is...

Mar 05, 2024 — From whichever perspective you look at it, Reddit is always evolving and growing. Users post and comment about current events or whatever they’re into lately, and Reddit employees improve infrastructure, fix bugs, and deploy new features. Any one...

Feb 05, 2024 — Machine Learning plays a role in most every computer application in use these days. Beneath the shine of generative AI applications, there’s a whole other side to ML that includes the tools and infrastructure that allow it to handle Reddit-scale...

Jan 09, 2024 — As Reddit has grown over the years, maintaining the security of the company and user’s data has become an increasingly difficult task. The teams that manage this responsibility are spread out across the company, and internal organization has also...

Dec 05, 2023 — Reddit is composed of many teams all working on various projects: everything from the iOS app to advertising, to collectible avatars. Keeping these teams focused and aligned to the core Reddit mission is no easy task. Meet Rachel O'Brien, the driving...