Remote Senior Backend Engineer: App Signals & Ads

Reddit; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include owning backend projects across MMP, SKAN, and App CAPI, building scalable ingestion services with validation and deduplication, and developing diagnostics to resolve

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior-level backend software engineering experience delivering and operating scalable production systems.
• Hands-on app ads signals or mobile measurement experience, with depth in MMP integrations, SKAN, or app conversion APIs.
• Strong programming, API design, distributed systems, and SQL skills, supported by independent 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

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

SQL

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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

Responsibilities include owning backend projects across MMP, SKAN, and App CAPI, building scalable ingestion services with validation and deduplication, and developing diagnostics to resolve