Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Remote - United States Remote

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.