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Backend Engineer - Ads Data Platform

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

Canada

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, 3+ years of backend engineering experience, Experience with data infrastructure tools, Strong communication and collaboration skills, Commitment to user privacy and quality solutions.

Key responsabilities:

Build and maintain large-scale data infrastructure applications
Refine data infrastructure technologies for safety
Own data pipelines handling 65B+ daily events
Design tools for access management and monitoring
Perform code reviews to enhance software quality

Reddit Internet Unicorn https://www.redditinc.com/

501 - 1000 Employees

HQ: San Francisco

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

Backend Engineer - Ads Data Platform team

As a Software Engineer focussed on building data infrastructure, you will build and maintain the data infrastructure tools used by the entire Reddit Monetization Org to generate, ingest, and access petabytes of raw data, with a focus on performance and optimization. You will write scalable / fault tolerant code while collaborating with a team of top quality engineers, all while learning about and contributing to one of the most powerful streaming event pipelines in the world. You will also develop standards, and frameworks to ensure a high level of data quality to help shape the future of the data platform at Reddit Ads. Not only will your work directly impact hundreds of millions of users around the world, but your output will also shape the data infrastructure across all of Reddit!

This is a backend software development position within the Ads Organization. Ads is the fuel that powers Reddit’s mission. As a backend engineer on the Ads Data Platform team, you would work on:

Building large-scale data infrastructure applications, like set-up and maintain data integration tools like airflow or spark, or have experience hosting and maintaining a distributed data store like Apache Druid for the entire company, horizontally.
Refine and maintain our data infrastructure technologies to support privacy safe storage and usage of data
Own the data pipelines that surface 65B+ daily events to all teams, and the tools we use ingestion, storage and to improve data quality.
Design and implement tooling for access management, monitoring, anomaly detection
Own data quality for crucial systems at Reddit. Define and manage SLAs for datasets that support production services.
Perform code reviews that improve software engineering quality.

Technologies used on the team include:

Languages: Scala, Go, Python, Java
Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka, Flink, Airflow
Datastores: Postgres, Cassandra, Druid, Redis, BigQuery
Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

What We're Looking For:

A Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative or computer science-related field (e.g., mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, computer science)
3+ years of full-time backend software engineering experience in a highly scalable computing environment
Experience in backend development, with a passion for learning and adapting to new technologies that you lacked prior experience with.
Experience with building the infrastructure/data infrastructure layer, setting up/managing core infrastructure for a large engineering organization, like a database, data integration tools, developer tools, container and virtualization tools etc
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders independently
A commitment to delivering high-quality solutions that meet our users' needs, while prioritizing their privacy and security

Nice to Have:

Experience using tools such as Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, or Spark, and good understanding of the underlying infrastructure setup and upkeep.
Prior experience in the digital ads space, with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in these areas
Experience with agile development methodologies and version control systems like Git
A passion for mentorship and knowledge-sharing, with a desire to help others grow and develop in their careers

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

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