Remote Backend Engineer - Ads Platform & Scale

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 229,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with employer match

Global benefits

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching benefits

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design and operate scalable ads services. You will collaborate with product managers, platform and data teams to deliver new features and ensure operational stability across microservices powering ad data models.

The role emphasizes building extensible systems, running A/B experiments, and partnering with data science to measure ad performance for informed product decisions. Remote work options are available.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related quantitative field.
• Four years of experience in backend services or related occupation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend ads services and APIs for high-volume traffic.
• Collaborate with product, platform and data teams to deliver features.
• Develop and operate scalable microservices with OT/observability.
• Lead A/B experiments and feature rollouts with data science partners.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Python

AWS & Kubernetes

Data modeling

A/B testing

CI/CD

Service APIs

Observability

Education

Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

MySQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Reddit is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design and operate scalable ads services. You will collaborate with product managers, platform and data teams to deliver new features and ensure operational stability across microservices powering ad data models.

The role emphasizes building extensible systems, running A/B experiments, and partnering with data science to measure ad performance for informed product decisions. Remote work options are available.