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