Staff Software Engineer, Reddit

Ads Experimentation Platform

$206.7-289.4k

+ Restricted stock units

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Scala

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Postgres

Airflow

Cassandra

Spark

Flink

BigQuery

Drone

Spinnaker

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Job no longer available

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Job no longer available

$206.7-289.4k

+ Restricted stock units

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Scala

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Postgres

Airflow

Cassandra

Spark

Flink

BigQuery

Drone

Spinnaker

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Degree in a quantitative discipline: engineering, statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, applied mathematics, economics, etc
7+ years of contributing high-quality code to production systems that operate at scale
5+ years of experience building ads-serving related systems, including but not limited to ads targeting, ads ranking, ads pacing
Experience building A/B testing frameworks for multiparty marketplace scenarios, e.g. food delivery service, ride sharing, ads marketplace
Experience leading large engineering teams and collaborating with cross-functional partners is required, especially with data science partners
Significant experience in one or more backend programming languages, experience with Go or Scala is preferable
Significant experience with API development and service frameworks, e.g. Thrift and Protobuf
Data processing frameworks like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, etc
A cloud service provider like AWS or GCP
Tools: Kubernetes, Drone, CircleCI, Spinnaker, Argo, Airflow, Docker
Datastores: ElasticSearch / Amazon OpenSearch, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, BigQuery

What the job involves

The Ads Experimentation Platform (AEXP) team builds tools for our engineers and scientists to accurately test new products and efficiently verify new ideas in the ads marketplace
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Ads Experimentation Platform team, you will 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, and lead the experimentation practices across the Ads marketplace teams
You will be responsible for the quality and technical approach within the team; partner with other leads in direction setting, planning, and overseeing engineering designs and executions; establish and contribute to the group’s culture and processes
You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and data science teams to ensure that our customers’ voices are represented in your work
Building Reddit-scale optimizations to improve advertiser outcomes using cutting-edge techniques in the industry
Leverage live auction data and model predictions to adjust campaign bids in real time
Incorporate knowledge of the Reddit ads marketplace into budget pacing algorithms powered by control & reinforcement learning systems
Lead the team on designing new bid & budget optimization products and algorithms as well as conducting rigorous A/B experiments to evaluate the business impact
Actively participate and work with other leads to set the long term direction for the team, plan and oversee engineering designs and project execution

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Paid volunteer time off
4+ months paid parental leave
Personal and professional development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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