Software Engineer

Reddit•San Francisco, CA

6d•$229,000 - $267,100•Remote

About The Position

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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Backend services design and development in Java, Go or Python
Distributed, horizontally scalable backend system design for high-traffic production workloads (e.g., real-time ad serving)
Service-to-service API design using RPC or HTTP-based frameworks (e.g., gRPC, Thrift, GQL)
Deployment and operation of production services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon ECS or Kubernetes)
Data modeling and schema design for relational and NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, 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 (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray), for incident diagnosis and resolution
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.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers to design and implement Ads products.
Work 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 align with the product objectives.
Support day-to-day project management tasks, including communicating project updates, managing project timelines, and overseeing project execution.
Design, develop, and operate backend microservices and APIs that power ads, including resolution, validation, and transformation across the advertising data models.
Build and maintain distributed, horizontally scalable backend systems that serve high-volume production traffic, including data storage, caching, and instrumentation for observability and reliability.
Design and execute A/B experiments and feature rollouts to evaluate product changes, and partner with data science teams to measure ad performance and inform product decisions.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
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
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
equity in the form of restricted stock units
commission