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Software Engineer

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Role Description:

  • 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

Role Description:

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

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:

  • 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
  • Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions
  • Income Replacement Programs
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
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