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Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Senior backend engineer building microservices, APIs, and real-time data systems for Reddit's advertising platform. Requires 5+ years experience in Go, Python, Scala or similar languages.

191k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Technologies

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

Nice-to-Haves

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

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

Skills

GoPythonScalaJavaC++SparkKafkaKubernetesPostgresBigQuery

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