Software Engineer, Backend

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. ROLE DESCRIPTION: This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer 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: * Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com * Distributed systems that ensure the right ad gets shown to the right user at the right time * Backends that power interactive user experiences on our ads like Polls and Games * Real time, data intensive systems that measure the performance of our ad campaigns * Infrastructure that supports all of the above Technologies used on the team include: * Languages: Go, Python, Scala * Frameworks: Spark, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka * Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Druid  * Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker 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.   REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: * 5+ 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. BONUS POINTS: * Experience working in the Ads domain  * Experience or interest in the advertising business and understanding customer needs Benefits: * Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs * 401k with Employer Match * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave     #li-remote 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 salary 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 salary range for this position is: $190,800—$267,100 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). 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SEATGEEK BELIEVES LIVE EVENTS ARE POWERFUL EXPERIENCES THAT UNITE HUMANS. WITH OUR TECHNOLOGICAL SAVVY AND FAN-FIRST ATTITUDE WE’RE SIMPLIFYING AND MODERNIZING THE TICKETING INDUSTRY. SeatGeek’s finance stack supports the reporting and operationalization of billions of dollars in transactions and settlements across diverse revenue streams and dozens of production systems. FinEng is the dedicated team focused on getting our arms around the finance and accounting data that SeatGeek generates across the business. This team is rethinking and rebuilding the systems that power our understanding of revenue recognition, marketplace settlements, and unit economics - all towards our mission of making SeatGeek the top destination for live event goers. As the company grows and use cases with our finance data transform, our stack needs to adjust and scale to keep pace with new agentic demands and the increasing complexity of our financial operations. You'll be hands-on building the core systems that ingest settlement and transaction data from across the business, translate it into our general ledger and billing systems, and make handling complex deal structures look easy. If you are passionate about modernizing financial infrastructure, modeling complex revenue flows, and building platforms that provide teams and agents data they can trust, this is your opportunity to transform how we think about money at SeatGeek. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Build and own core services that ingest PSP settlement and transactional data at scale, and translate it accurately into our general ledger and billing systems * Design and deliver the infrastructure that turns bespoke monetization deal terms into configuration, replacing point solutions with durable, auditable systems * Rapidly build and iterate tools to boost the quality and speed of interactions with our finance data, working AI-first by default * Partner with product engineering teams across the business to shape how transactional and settlement data gets modeled and exposed at the source - pushing for the data contracts we need instead of reverse-engineering what's convenient upstream * Communicate and collaborate with different stakeholders - Finance, Accounting, Data Scientists, Analysts, Data Platform Engineers, and Product - to institute best practices aimed at managing data quality * Maintain a high standard of accuracy, completeness, and operational excellence across the platform, in a SOX controlled environment * Create clear definitions and documentation of our data sources and systems, making ownership crystal clear WHAT YOU HAVE * 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record building and operating production backend systems * Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, and the core engineering skills to learn new tools and frameworks quickly * Experience handling and processing transactional or financial data at scale, ideally in a SOX controlled environment * Experience designing services and data models that are reliable, auditable, and built to last * Familiarity with the interface between streaming production data and a data warehouse environment * Comfort operating without a playbook - defining architecture, ways of working, and roadmap as you go * Ability to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical stakeholders * Bonus: knowledge of finance and accounting principles, and experience with payments infrastructure, marketplace payout platforms, or finance systems vendors OUR STACK Experience with every technology listed isn’t expected, we’ve included them for transparency. What matters most to us is your core engineering skills and ability to learn, not deep expertise in any one tool or language. * Languages: Python (FastAPI) * Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, Gitlab * Datastores: Aurora (Postgres), Redshift, dbt * Streaming & workflows: Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Temporal * Saas: Workato, NetSuite * AI Tooling: Claude Code, Codex, LLMs PERKS * Equity stake * Discretionary annual bonus * Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely * A WFH stipend to support your home office setup * Unlimited PTO * Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave  * 401(k) matching  * Student loan matching program * Health, vision, dental, and life insurance * Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care * $500 per year for wellness expenses * Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical * $360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events * Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The salary range for this role is $144,000 - $209,000 USD. This role is equity eligible. In addition, you may receive a discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation packages within that range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location. SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings. Come join us! To review our candidate privacy notice, click here. #LI-REMOTE