Backend Engineer, Ads

Location: Remote (within countries where Reddit has a physical presence)

About Reddit

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Reddit offers a flexible workforce. You can work remotely in any country where Reddit has a physical presence, or work from one of their office locations if you live nearby.

Team Descriptions (Potential Teams)

• Ads ML Serving Team: Builds the infrastructure and tools for machine learning across Ads, focusing on a reliable, scalable, and efficient ML serving stack.
• Attribution & Identity Team: Develops products that help advertisers measure campaign impact, focusing on attribution systems, identity solutions, and experimentation tools.
• Ads Growth Team: Drives initiatives to expand Reddit’s advertiser base, particularly for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs), by building and scaling the technical foundation for key product pillars.
• Business Manager Team: Tackles complex challenges at the core of Reddit’s ads platform, including innovating on permissions systems, building Agency and Large Enterprise solutions, and driving adoption among large advertisers.

Role Description

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

• 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 for an engineer at this level are coachability, a deep passion for coding, and 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 processes to improve operational stability, including code quality and delivering dashboards and data visualizations.
• Build extensible components that align with product objectives.
• Support day-to-day project management tasks, including communicating project updates, managing 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).
• Ability 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

• Global Benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions
• Income Replacement Programs
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Additional Information

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Reddit is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process.