Remote Senior Backend Engineer App Signals & Ads

Candidate; New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago (NY, CA, CA, IL); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote opportunity

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your

Family Planning Support

Gender‑Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a senior backend software engineer to help build app conversion signals that power Reddit’s app advertising business. You will work on MMP integrations, SKAN processing, and App CAPI to make app installs and in-app events more reliable for advertisers.

Join a team focused on scalable ingestion, data lineage, and privacy-aware design, delivering robust backend services and tooling across the ad measurement stack.

Qualifications

• Senior-level backend experience delivering and operating scalable production systems.
• Hands-on app ads signals or mobile measurement with MMP integrations, SKAN, or app conversion APIs.
• Strong programming, API design, distributed systems, and SQL skills with problem solving and data investigation.
• Clear communication and a record of delivering results with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own backend projects across MMP, SKAN, and App CAPI, from requirements and design to implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
• Build scalable ingestion and processing services with clear contracts, validation, deduplication, failure recovery, and data lineage.
• Develop integration tooling and diagnostics that help advertisers and partners identify and resolve signal delivery problems.
• Analyze signal quality and delivery metrics, investigate discrepancies, and prioritize improvements with product and data science partners.
• Work with partner engineering and downstream consumers to evolve schemas and integrations without disrupting existing advertisers.
• Incorporate privacy and security requirements into system design, and maintain controls throughout the data lifecycle.
• Raise engineering quality through testing, design reviews, incident learning, and mentorship.

Skills

Senior backend engineer

MMP integrations

SKAN

App CAPI

SQL

API design

Distributed systems

Communication

Job description

Reddit is seeking a senior backend software engineer to help build app conversion signals that power Reddit’s app advertising business. You will work on MMP integrations, SKAN processing, and App CAPI to make app installs and in-app events more reliable for advertisers.

Join a team focused on scalable ingestion, data lineage, and privacy-aware design, delivering robust backend services and tooling across the ad measurement stack.