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Software Engineer - Ads Safety & Verification

Reddit

Reddit

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 7, 2024
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.

The mission of the Ads Safety & Verification team is to protect the Reddit Ads ecosystem so that users have a safe ads experience and legitimate advertisers trust Reddit. We build full stack, high scale products that span Reddit’s consumer-facing apps and ads systems. We own integrations with metrics verification and brand safety partners and operate services that scale to reliably handle billions of requests per day.

We’re small, scrappy, and are able to execute on our most critical pillars with outsized impact:

  • Ads Policy Enforcement - Develop safety tools and systems to enforce Ads Policy accurately and efficiently.
  • Brand Safety Signals - Ensure brand safe ad adjacency with accurate and scalable safe-for-ads classifications and build industry leading tools for advertisers to control what content is appropriate for their ads to appear alongside.
  • Verification - Increase confidence in the effectiveness of Reddit’s ads platform and unlock revenue growth via integrations with trusted ad verification partners.

If you appreciate real technical challenges and you'd like to be part of the team that makes Reddit a sustainable, long-term business, come join us!

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.

Qualifications:

  • 3+ 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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in the Ads domain
  • Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs

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

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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:
$164,200$229,900 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.