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Software Engineer, Ads

Reddit Remote - Ontario, Canada Full-time Ads Engineering Posted May 18, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Reddit

Social Platform · San Francisco

3.8
Employee Rating
3.5
Work-Life Balance
158
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
  • 'Default Open' culture with comprehensive benefits and flexible time off

What could be better

  • Inconsistent management and shifting strategies create uncertainty across teams
  • 54% recommend rate — recent layoffs and reorgs have dampened morale
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About the Role

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 126 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.

Team Description

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across multiple teams, some of these teams include:

Ads ML Serving Team
The Ads ML Serving team is part of Reddit’s Ads ML Platform, which builds the infrastructure and tools that power machine learning across Ads. This team focuses on creating a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient ML serving stack. Their work includes evolving long-term serving architecture, integrating closely with the ads serving stack, optimizing CPU/GPU performance, and building model velocity tools like observability libraries and model quality gating.

Attribution & Identity Team
The Attribution & Identity team builds products that help advertisers understand and measure the impact of their campaigns. They focus on attribution systems, identity solutions, and advertiser experimentation tools that improve performance insights and usability. Their goal is to make Reddit’s advertising platform more effective, transparent, and data-driven.

Ads Growth Team
The Ads Growth team drives initiatives to expand Reddit’s advertiser base, with a focus on Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). We build and scale the technical foundation for key product pillars that enable SMB advertisers to succeed on Reddit. Our work spans collaboration with product, design, marketing, data science, UX, and sales teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
We prioritize iterative development, rapid shipping, rigorous testing, and building capabilities that create step-change growth. Our goal is to multiply the number of monthly active advertisers by delivering impactful tools, features, and experiences tailored to the needs of SMBs.

Business Manager
The Business Manager team stands out for its genuinely inclusive and collaborative culture, where not only is open feedback central, but every opinion and idea is truly valued and given space to shape our direction. Here, diverse perspectives are seen as a core strength, fostering a team dynamic where everyone feels empowered to contribute and innovate. On a day-to-day basis, engineers tackle complex, high-stakes challenges at the core of Reddit’s ads platform which include innovating on permissions systems, building Agency and Large Enterprise solutions, and driving adoption among Reddit's largest advertisers. From ideation to delivery, our engineers are trusted with end-to-end ownership of their projects, working closely in cross-functional collaboration with PMs, UX, and partner teams. This hands-on approach means every team member plays a direct and visible role in delivering high-impact, user-focused solutions for some of Reddit’s most strategic advertisers.

Role Description:

This is a generalist mid-level backend 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:

Technologies used on the team include:

Mid-level engineers are expected to absorb best practices and learn exceptionally quickly while being effective core contributors. Engineers at this level must be able to code independently, but may work with senior engineers on the design of complex solutions. The most important skills an engineer at this level must possess are 1) coachability and an eagerness to grow, 2) deep passion for coding, and 3) excellent independent learning skills, all while operating as a fully functioning member of an engineering team.

Responsibilities:

Required Qualifications:

Bonus Points:

Benefits:

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Reddit?
Reddit has a work-life balance score of 3.5/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Reddit’s culture like?
Reddit is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, equity, learning, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.8/5. Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
How many open roles does Reddit have?
Reddit currently has 158 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in Remote - Ontario, Canada. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
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