Skip to content
KissMyPost
Log inGet started

r/SoftwareEngineering↗

Software Engineering

175k subscribers336 posts / mo in Sep 2026276 authors / mosince 2008

r/SoftwareEngineering has 175k members (+12% over the last 12 months). It gets about 336 posts a month from 276 people. Top topics: Developer Life, Programming Books and Software Career Navigation.

Start for $1 Log in

Free report

When to post on r/SoftwareEngineering

You've used today's free reports

Visitors without an account can open 3 subreddit reports a day. The best time to post on r/SoftwareEngineering, removal risk and the rest of the report are one step away.

Start for $1 Log in

Size and growth

How r/SoftwareEngineering has grown

r/SoftwareEngineering

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+12%in 12 months · +1.9% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026175k
Growing175k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/SoftwareEngineering

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−46%vs Sep 2025 · −29% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026336
QuieterPeaked at 986 in Jan 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/SoftwareEngineering

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Developer Life4.5%
  2. Programming Books3.7%
  3. Software Career Navigation3.4%
  4. Developer Career Navigation2.4%
  5. Programmer Profiles1.7%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Claude Code Docs
  2. LinkedIn
  3. ChatGPT
  4. roadmap.sh
  5. LeetCode

The full report

Everything else about r/SoftwareEngineering

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Start for $1 Log in

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research