Staff Backend Software Engineer, Ads Business Manager

Reddit is a community of communities focused on shared interests and authentic conversations. The Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Business Manager team will develop a long-term technical strategy and lead large cross-functional projects to enhance agency enablement on the Reddit Ads Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead large cross-functional projects end to end, from concept, design, and implementation through to launch and driving adoption all while ensuring the highest quality and performance
• Have a strong product sense and be able to run customer interviews, translating data and user feedback into features that inform the team’s roadmap
• Mentor engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team
• Disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders with different priorities, and aggressively prioritize to execute effectively
• Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate Business Manager capabilities into broader infrastructure and use cases across Reddit

Requirements:

• 7+ years software engineering experience building production services at scale
• Ads domain experience
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company
• Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional efforts that span different teams, and driving alignment between diverse stakeholders
• Experience in solving complex system scaling and latency performance problems
• Strong proficiency in one or more: Go, Python; plus experience with service frameworks (gRPC/Thrift) and API design
• Experience with distributed systems, data modeling, and event‑driven architectures (e.g., Kafka/PubSub)
• Previous experience as a Tech Lead or similar function
• Experience building solutions for advertising agencies or other global enterprise customers