Senior Software Engineer - Ads Experimentation Platform

Position Overview

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

Reddit primarily generates revenue through advertising and is building a massive business to fund its mission. The company distinguishes itself from other digital ad platforms by attracting advertisers who want to connect with specific target audiences due to Reddit's passionate and engaged communities. Reddit's ads marketplace is a dynamic and complex environment where millions of engagements among users, advertisers, and the platform occur every second. It is critical for Reddit to extract useful and statistically significant signals from the massive volume of events to guide product developments and decisions in a scientific way.

Requirements

• Not specified

Responsibilities

• Work closely with data science partners and product leaders to improve the capacity and efficiency of existing experimentation tools.
• Research and build new testing methodologies and tools.
• Lead the experimentation practices across the Ads marketplace teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and data science teams.
• Specific project highlights include:
  • An A/B testing framework that splits both users and ad budgets to create parallel and mutually exclusive control/treatment sub ads marketplaces.
  • An exploration tool that can run multiple (hundreds of) A/B testing pairs of campaigns over multiple algorithmic candidates for pacing.
  • Partitioning the pacing and budgeting systems to accommodate the growing number of advertisers and maintain the refreshing rate above once per minute.

Company Information

Reddit is a community of communities, 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 over 100,000 active communities and approximately 101 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.