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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit 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. Team Description Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across three distinct teams: Ad Formats Over the last few years we have been growing multiple ads types and now are a sizable ads player approaching 1B and over in revenue. We have multiple ad formats like image/video/carousel etc. that advertisers rely on. (A) The Scaled Ads Formats team builds and develops ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers’ marketing goals. They will expand ad inventory by enabling ads on newer placements, optimizing the ad user experience, enhancing post click experience, supporting the ads/consumer ecosystem to ensure efforts for DAU happen in tandem with ads, and developing infrastructure to enable and enhance ad products. (B) The New Ads Format team builds and develops innovative and new to reddit ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. They introduce new concepts and try out variations to prove product market fit which solve customer needs. This is a fast paced environment where the team is nimble and adaptive to advertiser feedback. It also enhances foundations that enable it to provide newer concepts. Ads Business Manager The Ads Creative Management team focuses on the tools and systems advertisers use to create and manage their ad content. From images and videos to headlines and full post creatives, they enable efficient creative management and innovation across the campaign lifecycle. They work closely with AI teams to provide intelligent content suggestions and automation, helping advertisers launch high-quality campaigns faster and more effectively. Advertiser Growth We are looking for an engineer to supercharge our Small to Medium Business (SMB) focused Advertiser Growth efforts. In this role, you will be responsible for developing the technical foundation for mission critical product pillars, collaborating across the company to deliver outcomes for the Reddit Ads Business. This role provides an opportunity to partner closely with cross-functional teams such as product, design, marketing, data science, UX and Sales, and ultimately make a large number of small to medium businesses successful on Reddit. As an engineer for all of these efforts, you will help set the engineering strategy for building iteratively, shipping quickly, testing rigorously, and adding step-change capabilities towards our ambitious goals of multiplying many times over our number of monthly active advertisers. Business Manager The Business Manager team stands out for its genuinely inclusive and collaborative culture, where not only is open feedback central, but every opinion and idea is truly valued and given space to shape our direction. Here, diverse perspectives are seen as a core strength, fostering a team dynamic where everyone feels empowered to contribute and innovate. On a day-to-day basis, engineers tackle complex, high-stakes challenges at the core of Reddit’s ads platform which include innovating on permissions systems, building Agency and Large Enterprise solutions, and driving adoption among Reddit's largest advertisers. From ideation to delivery, our engineers are trusted with end-to-end ownership of their projects, working closely in cross-functional collaboration with PMs, UX, and partner teams. This hands-on approach means every team member plays a direct and visible role in delivering high-impact, user-focused solutions for some of Reddit’s most strategic advertisers. 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 Benefits: ~ Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs ~401k Match ~ Family Planning Support ~ Gender-Affirming Care ~ Mental Health & Coaching Benefits ~ Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off ~ Generous paid Parental Leave ~ Paid Volunteer time off #li-remote Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. 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. Additionally, 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. To learn more, please visit . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base pay range for this position is: $190,800—$267,100 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, and transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors . Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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