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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.
Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence.
Team Description
Reddit Is Poised To Rapidly Innovate And Grow Like No Other Time In Its History. We're Currently Hiring Across Multiple Teams, Some Of These Teams Include
Ads ML Serving Team
The Ads ML Serving team is part of Reddit's Ads ML Platform, which builds the infrastructure and tools that power machine learning across Ads. This team focuses on creating a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient ML serving stack. Their work includes evolving long-term serving architecture, integrating closely with the ads serving stack, optimizing CPU/GPU performance, and building model velocity tools like observability libraries and model quality gating.
Attribution & Identity Team
The Attribution & Identity team builds products that help advertisers understand and measure the impact of their campaigns. They focus on attribution systems, identity solutions, and advertiser experimentation tools that improve performance insights and usability. Their goal is to make Reddit's advertising platform more effective, transparent, and data-driven.
Ads Growth Team
The Ads Growth team drives initiatives to expand Reddit's advertiser base, with a focus on Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). We build and scale the technical foundation for key product pillars that enable SMB advertisers to succeed on Reddit. Our work spans collaboration with product, design, marketing, data science, UX, and sales teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
We prioritize iterative development, rapid shipping, rigorous testing, and building capabilities that create step-change growth. Our goal is to multiply the number of monthly active advertisers by delivering impactful tools, features, and experiences tailored to the needs of SMBs.
Business Manager
The Business Manager team stands out for its genuinely inclusive and collaborative culture, where not only is open feedback central, but every opinion and idea is truly valued and given space to shape our direction. Here, diverse perspectives are seen as a core strength, fostering a team dynamic where everyone feels empowered to contribute and innovate. On a day-to-day basis, engineers tackle complex, high-stakes challenges at the core of Reddit's ads platform which include innovating on permissions systems, building Agency and Large Enterprise solutions, and driving adoption among Reddit's largest advertisers. From ideation to delivery, our engineers are trusted with end-to-end ownership of their projects, working closely in cross-functional collaboration with PMs, UX, and partner teams. This hands-on approach means every team member plays a direct and visible role in delivering high-impact, user-focused solutions for some of Reddit's most strategic advertisers.
Role Description
This is a generalist mid-level backend position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit's mission. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on:
Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com
Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time
Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games
Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns
Infrastructure that supports all of the above
Technologies Used On The Team Include
Languages: Go, Python, Scala
Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka
Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Druid
Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker
Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.
Responsibilities
Work with product managers to design and implement Ads products.
Collaborate closely with the platform and data teams while building new features.
Lead the processes needed to improve operational sta
About the Company
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable. Share, vote, and decide what matters in everything from breaking news, to fandoms, lifehacks, gaming, sports, health, and the internet’s cutest animals. With over 100,000 subreddit communities about every topic you could think of (and thousands more you couldn’t), whatever it is, there’s a place for you on Reddit.
Interested in joining our growing team? Check out redditinc.com/careers.
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