Senior Software Engineer, Ads at Reddit

Role overview

Reddit’s Ads organisation builds systems for advertiser products, ad safety, creative management, campaign measurement and high-scale user experiences. This senior software-engineering role works on backend services and distributed infrastructure that powers the advertising ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices and APIs for advertiser-facing products.
• Build distributed systems that select and deliver relevant ads at the right time.
• Develop backends for interactive ad experiences such as polls and games.
• Build real-time, data-intensive systems that measure campaign performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, platform engineers and data teams on new Ads products.
• Operate and improve infrastructure using observability, testing and reliable deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Strong backend software-engineering experience with production distributed systems.
• Experience with Go, Python or Scala and frameworks or systems such as Spark, Kafka or Thrift.
• Familiarity with Postgres, BigQuery, Redis or Druid and Kubernetes, Argo or Docker.
• Ability to design APIs, reason about scale and reliability, and work with data-intensive services.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional, distributed environment.
• Interest in advertising safety, campaign measurement, creative tools or interactive consumer experiences.

Technology in this role

• Python: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• Java: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• C++: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• Kubernetes: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• Docker: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• Go: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• C: Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker .
• Scala: Experience with Go, Python or Scala and frameworks or systems such as Spark, Kafka or .
• Redis: Familiarity with Postgres, BigQuery, Redis or Druid and Kubernetes, Argo or .
• Kafka: Experience with Go, Python or Scala and frameworks or systems such as Spark, Kafka or .
• Spark: Experience with Go, Python or Scala and frameworks or systems such as Spark, Kafka or .
• CAN: Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical .
• BigQuery: Familiarity with Postgres, BigQuery, Redis or Druid and Kubernetes, Argo or .

Role-specific candidate guide

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Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• This job posting may span more than one career level.
• In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
• To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
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About Reddit

Reddit is a community platform whose Ads organisation builds advertiser products, safety systems, creative tooling and campaign infrastructure.

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