Remote Senior Software Engineer, Ads Marketplace Quality

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there's a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

We're evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we're excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one - join us!

Ads Marketplace Quality team strives to find the right balance between user interests and advertiser needs, and drive long term business impact for the company.

Some examples that you will be responsible of are

1. Developing systems that improve ads quality and relevance
2. Designing experiments to shape the utility function
3. Innovating in auction mechanism
4. Developing supply optimization algorithms
5. Revealing insights of marketplace dynamics and tradeoffs

You will have the opportunity to improve the connection between Reddit users and our partners.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design, build and improve backend systems to maximize values for users and advertisers
• Design and develop experiments to build understanding of long term marketplace efficiency
• Design end-to-end technical solutions to customer problems
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead other engineers in implementing technical designs
• Collaborate with product managers and data scientists to innovate and build products

Required Qualifications:

• 3 years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 4 years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Java, Scala, C , Python)
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong interest in ads quality problems and delivering quantifiable business impact.
• Experience in building products using A/B testing framework is preferred
• Background in computational advertising is preferred

Tech Stack:

• Languages: Golang, Scala
• Frameworks: Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka
• Datastores: Postgres, Druid, Redis, BigQuery
• Tools: Kubernetes, Airflow, Docker

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

Summary
Company name: reddit
Remote job title: Senior Software Engineer, Ads Marketplace Quality
Job tags: A/B Testing, marketplace, Computational Advertising