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Building Reddit

Building Reddit

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Welcome to Building Reddit. In this podcast, host Ryan H. Lewis will take you behind the scenes into how Reddit is built. From some of the coolest projects like Reddit Recap and Collectible Avatars, to the daily work lives of Reddit's employees. You’ll hear from software engineers, product managers, data scientists, community managers, marketers, and more!Reddit
Episodes
  • Post Guidance and Community Safety with Phil Aquilina
    Jun 3 2024

    Reddit is a big place and the safety of our users is one of our highest priorities. Scaling that safety is a constant focus, and we’ve built and evolved many different tools to enable that, used by Reddit employees and by community moderators.

    In this episode, you’ll hear from Phil Aquilina, a Staff Engineer on the Community Safety team. His team recently had a big win with the release of the Post Guidance feature, which is built on top of the Community Automations platform that he designed. He’s also been at Reddit for a while, so we’ll dive into his tenure at Reddit, why he’s still excited about coming to work, and how his work is making Reddit safer for everyone.

    Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers

    Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditEng

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    51 mins
  • Front-End Craftsmanship with Lonni Ingram
    Apr 2 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 a faster and cleaner experience that is easier than ever to use.

    One of the engineers who works on that project, Lonni Ingram, joins the podcast in this episode. She’s worked on several different aspects of Reddit’s web Front-end, from the text editor to the post composer, in her role as a Staff Front-End Engineer. In this discussion she shares more about how front-end development works at reddit, some of the toughest bugs she’s encountered, and what she’s excited about on the web.

    Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers

    Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditEng

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    54 mins
  • What’s Next for Reddit Tech
    Mar 5 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 player in this ecosystem would probably have trouble seeing the complete picture.

    In this episode, you’ll get a better understanding of the tech side of this equation with this very special roundtable discussion with three of the people best positioned to share where Reddit has been and where it’s going. The roundtable features Reddit’s Chief Technology Officer and Founding Engineer, Chris Slowe, VP of Data Science and Safety, Tyler Otto, and VP of Infrastructure, Matt Snelham.

    In this discussion, they’ll share what they’re most proud of at Reddit, how they are keeping users safe against new threats, and what they want to accomplish in 2024.

    Check out all the open positions at Reddit on our careers site: https://www.redditinc.com/careers

    Join the conversation at: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditEng

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    1 hr and 11 mins

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