Senior Ads Bidding & Pacing Engineer — Scale & Impact

reddit; Canada; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform in Canada is seeking a Software Engineer in the Ads Bidding and Pacing team. You will work collaboratively to improve monetization systems, ensure code quality, and conduct impactful A/B experiments. Ideal candidates have experience with ads systems and data processing frameworks, and possess excellent communication skills. This role offers comprehensive health benefits, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Benefits

Comprehensive Health benefits

Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions

Workspace benefits for your home office

Personal & Professional development funds

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Qualifications

• Experience in optimizing an ads marketplace.
• Years of experience building systems that ingest and process data in real time.
• Comfortable with big data and data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify and close operational gaps in automated bidding products.
• Build systems to process data at marketplace scale.
• Design and conduct A/B experiments for new optimization algorithms.
• Write maintainable code and conduct rigorous analyses.

Skills

Experience in ads & marketplace systems

Programming languages (Scala, Go, Java)

Data processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis, Kafka)

Distributed systems

Strong communication skills

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field

Job description

A leading social media platform in Canada is seeking a Software Engineer in the Ads Bidding and Pacing team. You will work collaboratively to improve monetization systems, ensure code quality, and conduct impactful A/B experiments. Ideal candidates have experience with ads systems and data processing frameworks, and possess excellent communication skills. This role offers comprehensive health benefits, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for personal and professional development.