Principal Software Engineer, Ads Backend Engineering

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not provided

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.

The Ads Foundations org is where Ads Engineering, Product, ML Systems, and Experimentation efforts are combined to show the best ad to Reddit users. Our responsibilities include:

• Tech Evolution of the Reddit & Ads stack: Bringing the Ads tech stacks into the future leveraging existing Reddit centralized resources (Cloud/People/Know-how) and going beyond when required by ads unique scaling and performance challenges.
• Balancing Needs: Balancing the needs of two different customer types – advertisers and Reddit users.
• Engineering Velocity & Happiness: Unlock the shortest path, without compromising on quality, to build from proof of concepts to fully productionized systems using new ML models, targeting approaches and relevance measurements. We want to democratize developer velocity independently from the size or the amount of infra/system expertise a specific vertical team has.
• Cloud Resources & Data Observability: Standardize and apply best practices among all the vertical teams to be able to understand Cloud and Business impact for any given product launch. As we evolve as a public company, we also want to evolve our best practices when it comes to resources to teams/systems/components mapping to facilitate future refactors, optimization, and go to market initiatives.
• Cost of Revenue Tracking and Optimizations: Design, implement, and drive best practices for all development teams to ship cost efficient systems that can survive the test of time. The Ads Infrastructure team acts as the gate to validate the engineering excellence of a given system going live for millions of customers.

Requirements

• Not specified

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical architecture and platform strategy for Reddit’s Ads backend.
• Lead the technical direction for how Reddit’s Ads backend evolves to meet the next generation of advertiser and user needs.
• Operate as a force multiplier: elevating not only our systems, but also our engineers, our org, and the industry at large.

Application Instructions

• Not provided

Company Information

• Reddit: https://www.redditinc.com/