Senior Software Engineer, Ads
- Salary
- $190,800 - $267,100
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 7 March 2026.
About the role
Reddit's standard text
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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.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.
Role Description:
This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer 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
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 stability, including improving code quality, delivering dashboards and data visualizations.
- Build extensible components that would align with the product objectives.
- Support day to day project management tasks including communicating project updates, managing project timelines and overseeing project execution.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, C++, Python).
- Able to take complete ownership of a feature or project.
Bonus Points:
- Experience working in the Ads domain
- Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs
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Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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Pay Transparency:
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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 salary 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 salary range for this position is:
$190,800—$267,100 USD
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
C++ · Docker · Kafka · Microservices · PostgreSQL · Scala · Spark
Rare in Reddit's other 108 open postings.
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Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
66% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Reddit's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Ads Product & Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 26 open in Ads Product & Engineering. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (13 of 26), Python (13 of 26), BigQuery (10 of 26), Java (10 of 26), Generative AI (9 of 26), Golang (9 of 26), Kafka (9 of 26)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Engineering Manager, Knowledge Graph Platform posted Oct 7
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative Effectiveness posted Oct 2
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads ML Efficiency posted Oct 1
- Frontend Engineer, Ads Campaign Manager posted Sep 29
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, App Ads Modeling posted Sep 25
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Retrieval posted Sep 16
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic AI Platform (Ads Ranking) posted Sep 15
- Frontend Engineer, Ads posted Sep 11
- Senior Frontend Engineer, Ads Creative posted Sep 2
- Staff Product Manager, Ads Formats posted Aug 31
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML Platform posted Aug 25
- Staff Android Engineer, Brand Ad Formats posted Aug 12
- Senior Product Manager, Ads - Shopping Catalogs posted Aug 11
- Senior Business Engineer - Ads posted Jun 22
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations posted Jun 19
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations posted Jun 19
- Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Ads Experience posted Jun 3
- Senior Business Engineer - Ads posted May 22
- Staff Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform posted May 22
- Ads Conversion Modeling, Machine Learning Engineering Manager posted Apr 14
- Senior Software Engineer, Ads posted Oct 21
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Aug 14
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Aug 14
- Software Engineer, Ads posted Jan 7
- Software Engineer, Ads posted Jan 6
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