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Software Engineer, Ads Bidding and Pacing

Reddit, Inc.

About the Role

Join Reddit's Ads Bidding and Pacing team as a Software Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of developing cutting-edge ad campaign optimizations. This role is pivotal in enabling advertisers to efficiently capture user engagement while minimizing costs. You'll work with machine learning and optimization algorithms to incorporate advertisers' off-site goals in auction ranking, maximizing installs, key conversions, or return on ad spend.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop Optimization Systems: Collaborate with technical leaders to implement sophisticated optimization systems. Contribute to technical design and work across the ad serving stack to create new bidding products and extend existing functionalities.
  • Maintain Production Systems: Ensure that production systems and codebases remain healthy and maintainable in the long-term.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure customer needs are met.
  • Experimentation and Analysis: Design, conduct, and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of the systems you build.

Who You Are

  • Experience: 2+ years of experience contributing high-quality code to production systems that operate at scale.
  • Data Handling: Experience working with streamed and real-time data.
  • Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and use results to drive software development.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Experience partnering with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Domain Knowledge: Experience in online marketplaces or the ads domain is a plus.

Projects You Will Work On

  • Bid-Based Budget Pacing System: Deliver campaigns’ budgets throughout the day.
  • Maximize Conversions Campaign Optimization: Use real-time bidding to meet advertisers’ key objectives.
  • Lowest Cost Campaign Optimization: Simplify advertisers’ experiences by automating campaign bids.
  • Cost Caps: Allow advertisers to get as much volume as possible without sacrificing performance goals.

Benefits

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

Pay Transparency

This position offers a base salary range of $164,200—$229,900 USD. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and may also be eligible to receive a commission. 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.

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

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

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