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Senior Software Engineer - Ads Bidding & Pacing

reddit · 30+ days ago

Remote - United States

$190k+

Full-time

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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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

As a software engineer in the Ads Bidding and Pacing team, you will work closely with technical leaders to implement sophisticated optimization systems and make existing systems more robust. You are responsible for contributing to a technical design, working across the ad serving stack to create new functionality with urgency and care, and ensuring that codebases are healthy and maintainable in the long-term. You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure that our customers’ voices are represented in your work. You will design, conduct, and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of the systems that you build.

You will serve as a leader and a key contributor to some of the most impactful monetization systems at Reddit.

Your Responsibilities:

Identify and close infrastructural and operational gaps in our automated bidding products & pacing systems.
Build systems that can ingest and process data at the scale of the whole-marketplace.
Work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure that improvements to bidding & pacing systems are aligned with the business’ vision for the marketplace.
Design and conduct rigorous A/B experiments to evaluate the business impact of new bid & budget optimization algorithms.
Writing maintainable code and conducting rigorous analyses.
Contribute data-driven insight to projects in your space. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future.

Who You Might Be:

Relevant experience working in ads & marketplace systems, and optimizing an ads marketplace
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field, or equivalent is preferred.
4+ years of industry experience building systems that ingest and process data in real time using frameworks like Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis, and Kafka.
Experience with general-use programming languages such as Scala, Go, and Java.
Comfortable with distributed systems, big data (Petabyte scale) and data-intensive systems.
Comfort and willingness to explore data in order to understand experiment results and inform design decisions.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work effectively with product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders
Strong ownership mentality & independence, and desire to contribute to roadmap development.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

Join us at Reddit, and help us build a community that is inclusive and empowering for everyone!

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. 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.

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Last updated on Aug 13, 2024

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