Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence. 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

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