Senior Software Engineer, Ads
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This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $170,069–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $229k versus about $197k for comparable roles.
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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Ads Creative Effectiveness team, you will build generative and predictive products to improve ad creative impact through fine-tuned LLMs and VLMs. You will lead the architecture for high-performance backends, develop end-to-end image and video editing engines, and design infrastructure that links performance data like CTR and CVR to the generation flywheel. Your daily work involves optimizing model orchestration for high-concurrency inference, building robust content filtering middleware, and creating automated pipelines for brand asset preservation. You will utilize Python and Go to build scalable microservices and APIs while collaborating with Product and ML teams to define technical roadmaps. The role focuses on solving complex engineering challenges in the creative tooling domain, specifically developing tools that help advertisers create high-impact, brand-safe content through advanced generative AI workflows.
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