Ads Backend Engineer — Remote-friendly & Impactful

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Global benefits

Family planning

Gender-affirming care

Mental health support

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a mid-level backend engineer for the Ads Organization. This role focuses on building microservices and distributed systems that power advertiser-facing products like ads.reddit.com, while ensuring performance and reliability.

You will collaborate with platform and data teams to deliver features, improve operational stability, and build scalable components aligned with product goals. Strong coaching, coding passion, and independent learning are valued.

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.

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.

Skills

Go

Python

Scala

Java

C++

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo

Docker

Kafka

Spark

Job description

Reddit is seeking a mid-level backend engineer for the Ads Organization. This role focuses on building microservices and distributed systems that power advertiser-facing products like ads.reddit.com, while ensuring performance and reliability.

You will collaborate with platform and data teams to deliver features, improve operational stability, and build scalable components aligned with product goals. Strong coaching, coding passion, and independent learning are valued.