Software Engineer

at Reddit

USD 229,000-267,100 per year

MIDDLE SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

Reddit is seeking a Software Engineer to design and implement advertising products, collaborate with product, platform, data, and data science teams, and build reliable backend systems that support high-volume production traffic. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers to design and implement Ads products.
Work closely with platform and data teams to build new features.
Improve operational stability through code quality improvements, dashboards, and data visualizations.
Build extensible components aligned with product objectives.
Support project management activities, including communicating project updates, managing timelines, and overseeing execution.
Design, develop, and operate backend microservices and APIs that power advertising workflows, including resolution, validation, and transformation across advertising data models.
Build and maintain distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems serving high-volume production traffic, including data storage, caching, instrumentation, observability, and reliability.
Design and execute A/B experiments and feature rollouts to evaluate product changes.
Partner with data science teams to measure ad performance and inform product decisions.

Requirements

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
Four years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Backend services design and development using Java, Go, or Python.
Distributed, horizontally scalable backend system design for high-traffic production workloads, such as real-time ad serving.
Service-to-service API design using RPC or HTTP-based frameworks, such as gRPC, Thrift, or GQL.
Deployment and operation of production services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including container orchestration platforms such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.
Data modeling and schema design for relational and NoSQL datastores, such as MySQL and Amazon DynamoDB, including query optimization and indexing.
A/B testing and feature-flagged experimentation in production environments.
Production observability instrumentation, including metrics, logs, and request tracing using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.
Automated unit, integration, and functional testing integrated into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Backend system development in digital advertising technology, including ad ingestion, ad serving, or ad-targeting workflows.
Technical design and end-to-end delivery leadership of multi-quarter projects, including authoring technical design documents and driving cross-functional execution with product, data, and platform partners.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
401(k) with employer match.
Global benefit programs supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
Family planning support.
Gender-affirming care.
Mental health and coaching benefits.
Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
Generous paid parental leave.
Equity in the form of restricted stock units; certain positions may also be eligible for commission.