Staff Engineer, Ads Formats

💰 $217k-$303k
🇺🇸 United States - Remote
💻 Software Development🔵 Mid-level

Job 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. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Team Description

The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of 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.

The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format, and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content.

Role Description:

The Brand Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Backend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the team.

As a staff backend engineer on the team, candidates will work on:

  • Online systems used for ad rendering
  • Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
  • Backends that power interactive ad experiences
  • Database design in support of the above

Technologies used on the team include:

  • Languages: Go, Python
  • Frameworks/Technologies: GQL, Thrift, Kafka
  • Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, DynamoDB
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Staff-level engineers are expected to help define best practices on the team that are in alignment with the broader organization, while also being effective code contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to execute complex projects and lead other engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with product managers to define and improve Ads products.
  • Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations.
  • Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges.
  • Collaborate with platform and data teams while building new features.
  • Support project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution.
  • Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.
  • Build extensible components that would align with the product objectives.

Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ 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 complex project.

  • Minimum 3+ years experience building backend systems for high scale and performance.

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.

  • An experienced technical leader with a strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members technical skills.

  • Experience working in the Ads domain.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience doing full stack development
  • Exposure to using LLMs in production

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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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:

$217,000—$303,900 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, and transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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