3 hours ago
Base Salary
$229k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement advertising products in collaboration with product managers, platform teams, and data teams.
- Develop and operate backend microservices and APIs supporting ad resolution, validation, transformation, ingestion, serving, and targeting workflows.
- Build distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems for high-volume production traffic, including storage, caching, instrumentation, and reliability features.
- Improve operational stability through code-quality initiatives, dashboards, data visualizations, observability, and incident diagnosis.
- Design and execute A/B experiments and feature rollouts, partnering with data science to evaluate ad performance and inform product decisions.
- Lead technical design and end-to-end delivery of multi-quarter projects, including technical documentation and cross-functional execution.
- Support project management activities such as communicating updates, managing timelines, and overseeing execution.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering in any field, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Four years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Backend services design and development experience using Java, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems for high-traffic production workloads.
- Experience with service-to-service API design using RPC or HTTP-based frameworks such as gRPC, Thrift, or GQL.
- Experience deploying and operating production services on AWS, including container orchestration platforms such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL data modeling, schema design, query optimization, and indexing using systems such as MySQL and Amazon DynamoDB.
- Experience with production A/B testing, feature-flagged experimentation, observability instrumentation, and automated unit, integration, and functional testing.
- Experience developing backend systems for digital advertising technology, including ad ingestion, ad serving, or ad-targeting workflows.
- Experience leading technical design and end-to-end delivery of multi-quarter projects with product, data, and platform partners.
Benefits
- Full-time telecommuting is an option.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
- Base pay range of $229,000.00–$267,100.00 USD, with potential eligibility for restricted stock units and, depending on the position, commission.
About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.