Software Engineer, Ads

Software Engineer, Ads at Reddit, Inc.

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. 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 presence.

Role Description

This is a generalist mid-level backend position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on:

• Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
• Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time
• Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games
• Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns
• Infrastructure that supports all of the above

Technologies Used On The Team Include

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

Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.

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 extensible 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.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ 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.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in the Ads domain
• Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs

Benefits

Reddit offers comprehensive benefits including Healthcare, 401k with Employer Match, Global Benefit programs, Family Planning Support, Gender-Affirming Care, Mental Health & Coaching Benefits, Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off, and Generous Paid Parental Leave.

Pay Transparency

The base salary range for this Software Engineer, Ads position in the U.S. is $164,200—$229,900 USD. This job is also eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and potentially a commission. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse workforce.

Key skills/competency

• Backend Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Microservices
• API Development
• Go Programming Language
• Python Programming Language
• Scala Programming Language
• Data-Intensive Systems
• Operational Stability
• Kafka