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Senior Backend Engineer, Ads

San Francisco, CA / Remote

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com

Reddit is a network of more than 100,000 communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies and passions. 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 more than 50 million daily active uniques, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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We’re evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we’re excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one! This is a general post for multiple teams. If any of these points resonate, don’t hesitate to apply and learn more about what we’re working on. 

Monetization is often the most data-heavy, latency sensitive, and technically demanding part of any online business. Our Ads Engineers work on the Reddit Ads platform, all the way from the front-end tools for ad creation to predictive modeling, delivery, auctions, and attribution.

As an early member of this mission driven team, you will have lots of ownership and impact to shape our ads business to support overall Reddit's mission. Technologies you might work with include:

  • Languages: Scala, Go, Python
  • Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka
  • Datastores: Postgres, Cassandra, Druid, Redis, BigQuery
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

If you appreciate real technical challenges and you'd like to be part of the team that turns Reddit into a sustainable, long-term business, come join us!

Note: we are open to candidates based and authorized to work anywhere in the United States or Canada

 Responsibilities:

  • Work with product managers to design and implement Ads products.
  • Collaborate closely with the platform and data teams while building new features.
  • Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations.
  • Build extendable components that would align with the product objectives. 
  • Support day to day project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution.  

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, C++, Python).
  • Able to take complete ownership of a feature or project.
  • Good understanding of large scale backend service design.
  • An interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs is a plus.

Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

Job ID: 2589260
Employment Type: Other

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