Senior Software Engineer, Ads
Core
Building backend systems, microservices, and distributed infrastructure for Reddit's advertising platform (ads.reddit.com) to serve advertisers and users.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Ads)
Builds
Advertiser-facing products, real-time ad delivery systems, interactive ad features (Polls/Games), and campaign performance dashboards.
Domain
Internet / Digital Advertising
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Python, Scala, Java, C++, distributed systems, microservices, API design, data-intensive systems, Kubernetes, Docker, Argo, Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Druid, Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka, code quality, operational stability
Preferred skills
Ads domain experience, advertising business knowledge, customer needs understanding
Responsibilities
Design and implement Ads products with product managers, collaborate with platform and data teams, improve operational stability and code quality, build extensible components, manage project timelines and execution
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
