Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Role Description

This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer 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

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

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 align with product objectives.
• Support day-to-day project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines, and overseeing project execution.

Qualifications

Required 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.

Bonus Points

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

Interview Process Note

In select roles and locations, interviews will be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). Candidates will have the opportunity to opt out prior to scheduled interviews.