Software Engineer - Ads Foundations
Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.
Team Description
Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across three distinct teams:
Ad Safety & Verification Team
The mission of the Ads Safety & Verification team is to protect the Reddit ads ecosystem so that users have a safe ads experience and legitimate advertisers trust Reddit. This team builds full stack, high scale products that span Reddit’s consumer-facing apps and ads systems. They own integrations with metrics verification and brand safety partners and operate services that scale to reliably handle tens of millions of requests per day.
Ads Creative Management (ACM) Team
The Ads Creative Management team focuses on the tools and systems advertisers use to create and manage their ad content. From images and videos to headlines and full post creatives, they enable efficient creative management and innovation across the campaign lifecycle. They work closely with AI teams to provide intelligent content suggestions and automation, helping advertisers launch high-quality campaigns faster and more effectively.
Brand Innovation Team
The Brand Innovation team drives the development of new ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.
Role Description:
This is a generalist mid-level backend position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might 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
Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.
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:
3+ 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.
Bonus Points:
Experience working in the Ads domain
Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs
Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$164,200—$229,900 USD
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Software Engineer - Ads Foundations
Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.
Team Description
Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across three distinct teams:
Ad Safety & Verification Team
The mission of the Ads Safety & Verification team is to protect the Reddit ads ecosystem so that users have a safe ads experience and legitimate advertisers trust Reddit. This team builds full stack, high scale products that span Reddit’s consumer-facing apps and ads systems. They own integrations with metrics verification and brand safety partners and operate services that scale to reliably handle tens of millions of requests per day.
Ads Creative Management (ACM) Team
The Ads Creative Management team focuses on the tools and systems advertisers use to create and manage their ad content. From images and videos to headlines and full post creatives, they enable efficient creative management and innovation across the campaign lifecycle. They work closely with AI teams to provide intelligent content suggestions and automation, helping advertisers launch high-quality campaigns faster and more effectively.
Brand Innovation Team
The Brand Innovation team drives the development of new ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact. They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users. By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes. Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive.
Role Description:
This is a generalist mid-level backend position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might 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
Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.
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:
3+ 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.
Bonus Points:
Experience working in the Ads domain
Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs
Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$164,200—$229,900 USD