Senior Software Engineer, Ads
Reddit- Base salary
- $191k–$267k Published base salary range
- Location
- Remote - United States Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Reddit
Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.
Role Description
This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer position within the Ads Organization. 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
- 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 the product objectives.
- Support day to day project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution.
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
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
Pay Transparency
The base salary range for this position is $190,800—$267,100 USD. 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. 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.
Application Instructions
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