Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Reddit; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global benefits

Family planning

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching

Medical benefits & HSA

RRSP with matching

Income replacement

Flexible vacation & volunteer time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a mid-level backend engineer for the Ads Organization. You will contribute to ads.reddit.com and related services, building scalable microservices and data-intensive backends.

Join a team working with Go, Python, Scala and modern data tools like Spark, Kafka, and Kubernetes, with a strong emphasis on ownership, coaching, and rapid learning in a heavily collaborative environment. Remote-friendly role with global impact, opportunities for growth, and exposure to large-scale

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development in Java, Scala, Go, C++, or Python.
• Ability to own a feature or project end-to-end.
• Coachability and eagerness to grow; deep passion for coding.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Ads products with product managers.
• Collaborate with platform and data teams while building new features.
• Lead processes to improve operational stability, dashboards and data visualizations.
• Build extensible components aligned with product objectives.
• Coordinate day-to-day project management and execution.

Skills

Go

Python

Scala

Java

C++

Ownership

Coachability

Independent learning

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Argo

Spark

Thrift

Baseplate

Kafka

Postgres

BigQuery

Redis

Druid

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 130 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.

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 Safety & Verification Team

The mission of the Ads Safety & Verification team is to protect the Reddit ads ecosystem so that users have a safe ads experience and legitimate advertisers trust Reddit. This team builds full stack, high scale products that span Reddit’s consumer-facing apps and ads systems. They own integrations with metrics verification and brand safety partners and operate services that scale to reliably handle tens of millions of requests per day.

Ads Creative Management (ACM) Team

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.

Brand Innovation Team

The Brand Innovation team drives the development of new ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.

Role Description:

This is a generalist mid-level backend 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

Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.

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:

• 3+ 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:

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions
• Income Replacement Programs
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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.