12 Oct
Tbwa Chiat/Day
Toronto
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.
As a Software Engineer focused 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 setting up and maintaining 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.
- Refining and maintaining our data infrastructure technologies to support privacy-safe storage and usage of data.
- Owning the data pipelines that surface 65B+ daily events to all teams, and the tools we use for ingestion, storage, and to improve data quality.
- Designing and implementing tooling for access management, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
- Owning data quality for crucial systems at Reddit. Defining and managing SLAs for datasets that support production services.
- Performing code reviews that improve software engineering quality.
Technologies used on the team include:
- Languages: Scala, Go, Python, Java
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.
- 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 a 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.
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▶️ Backend Engineer - Ads Data Platform New Toronto, Canada
🖊️ Tbwa Chiat/Day
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