Staff Engineer, Reddit

• The Brand Ad Formats team is seeking a skilled Backend engineer with a product-focused mindset to join the team
• Engineers at this level must be able to execute complex projects and lead other engineers
• 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

Desirable

• The Brand Ad Formats team drives the development of ad formats that help advertisers maximize reach and brand impact
• They focus on high-visibility, awareness-driven solutions that create memorable experiences for Reddit users
• By delivering guaranteed placements and engaging ad interactions, they support major brand initiatives and help advertisers achieve measurable outcomes
• Their work includes evolving existing formats and launching entirely new ones to keep Reddit’s ad offerings fresh and competitive
• The team is working on multiple new formats including a fully customizable interactive ad format, and an ad format that uses AI to incorporate User-Generated Content
• As a staff backend engineer on the team, candidates will work on:
• Online systems used for ad rendering
• Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
• Backends that power interactive ad experiences
• Database design in support of the above
• Staff-level engineers are expected to help define best practices on the team that are in alignment with the broader organization, while also being effective code contributors
• 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