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From the employer's careers site First seen 15 Sept 2026 · Still live on 6 Nov 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Reddit Remote - United States Remote senior full-time

Salary

$190,800-$267,100 USD per year

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Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit's mission. As a backend engineer on the team, you will work on:

  • Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
  • Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time
  • Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games
  • Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns
  • Infrastructure that supports all of the above

Technologies used on the team include:

  • Languages: Go, Python, Scala
  • Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka
  • Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Druid
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

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.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ 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.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Experience working in the Ads domain
  • Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/6909091

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