Reddit
Senior Software Engineer, Ads
Found: Today
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 on the team include:
- 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 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:
- 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
