Senior Software Engineer, Ads Creative Management

Job Description

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.

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. The Ads Creative Management team is building new tools to store, catalog, and optimize advertiser images, videos and text. As a key member of this fast-growing team, you will have lots of ownership and opportunity to be at the cutting edge of building AI-based tools from zero-to-one.

As a Senior Backend engineer on the Ads Creative Management team, you will build tools that make it easier for advertisers to create relevant, effective, visually pleasing ads on Reddit. The ideal candidate will leverage their knowledge of asset storage and management, AI/LLMs, and scaling services to develop world-class tooling and innovate on the behalf of our advertising partners.

Responsibilities:

Execution: Write clean, well tested, maintainable code that adheres to best practices.
Integration: Design and build solutions that span systems, and own the software design end to end.
Communication: Work in partnership with management and senior leadership to ensure alignment between technical and business goals.
Collaboration: Work with cross functional partners for feature development, bug fixes, and new system design to gather input and requirements.
Problem Solving: Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience as a software engineer with recent experience in a Senior role
Experience executing on large scale projects from 0 to 1
Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues
Software development experience in one or more general purpose languages: Python, Golang, Rust, Java, Javascript, etc

Bonus Points:

Ads Industry experience
Experience with LLMs and generative AI

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

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 [email protected].