Staff Engineer, Ads Formats

Summary

Join Reddit's Brand Ad Formats team as a Staff Backend Engineer and contribute to the development of innovative ad formats. You will work on online systems for ad rendering, microservices and APIs for ads.reddit.com, backends for interactive ad experiences, and database design. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to build sophisticated solutions. Lead projects, mentor team members, and define best practices. Leverage your expertise in Go, Python, and various frameworks/technologies to create extensible components aligned with product objectives. This role requires significant backend system development experience and a proven track record of technical leadership.

Requirements

• 7+ 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 complex project
• Minimum 3+ years experience building backend systems for high scale and performance
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• An experienced technical leader with a strong track record of mentoring and uplifting team members technical skills
• Experience working in the Ads domain

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers to define and improve Ads products
• Lead the processes needed to improve operational stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to innovate and implement sophisticated solutions for complex challenges
• Collaborate with platform and data teams while building new features
• Support project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution
• Engage in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy
• Build extensible components that would align with the product objectives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience doing full stack development
• Exposure to using LLMs in production

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off