Senior Backend Engineer, Ads Platform

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Benefit programs

Mental Health & Coaching

Comprehensive Medical Benefits & HSA/H

Retirement Savings Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a mid-level Backend Engineer for its Ads org. You will work on ads.reddit.com and other advertiser-facing services, designing and implementing scalable features that drive ad performance and user experience.

You will collaborate with platform and data teams, contribute to real-time data pipelines, and help improve operational stability through monitoring and dashboards. A strong background in Go, Java, Scala or Python is expected, along with Kubernetes, Docker and related tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, Python).
• Ability to own features or projects end-to-end.
• Experience building backend systems and scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Ads products in collaboration with product teams.
• Collaborate with platform and data teams while building new features.
• Lead processes to improve operational stability, code quality, and dashboards.

Skills

Java

Scala

Go

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo

Docker

Kafka

Spark

Postgres

BigQuery

Redis

Druid

Job description

Reddit is seeking a mid-level Backend Engineer for its Ads org. You will work on ads.reddit.com and other advertiser-facing services, designing and implementing scalable features that drive ad performance and user experience.

You will collaborate with platform and data teams, contribute to real-time data pipelines, and help improve operational stability through monitoring and dashboards. A strong background in Go, Java, Scala or Python is expected, along with Kubernetes, Docker and related tools.