Senior Staff Engineer, Ads

Team Description

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 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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The Agency, Partnership, and SMB (Small and Medium Business) teams share a vision to make Reddit a destination for businesses of all sizes. We are building 0->1 products to create a diversified business. You will work closely with multiple teams across the ads platform and beyond to grow all channels of advertiser growth on the platform, including:

• Acquisition
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  Acquiring and activating new advertisers to Reddit, including lightweight ads experiences in consumer Reddit,
• Retention
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  Ensuring advertisers are set up with the best practices to get performance on the platform, owning the advertiser lifecycle, and providing opinionated guidance in-product for advertisers
• Business Management
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  From permissions and asset sharing for large customers to unlock new lines of business, to how business operate across organic and paid channels on reddit, to how agencies onboard and work with client advertisers
• API
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  Creating API-first features, building foundational capabilities for both our 1p platform and 3p partners, and increasing integrations and partnerships

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as the technical owner across this entire advertiser growth domain.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing the technical foundation for mission critical product pillars, collaborating across the company to deliver outcomes for the Reddit Ads Business. This role provides an opportunity to partner closely with cross-functional teams such as product, design, marketing, data science, UX and Sales, and ultimately make a large number of businesses of all sizes successful on Reddit.

As a technical leader for all of these efforts, you will set the engineering strategy for building iteratively, shipping quickly, testing rigorously, and adding step-change capabilities towards our ambitious goals to grow and diversify our advertiser base. This is a high-agency position for an engineer who can navigate ambiguity and take decisive ownership of the pillar’s technical direction in collaboration with other engineers, teams, and stakeholders.

• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high-leverage projects that accelerate the development of the Ads API to help Reddit achieve its ambitious goals.
• Architect: Help define the 2+ year technical roadmap for the platform, translating complex business needs into a clear strategy for highly available and performant backend services.
• Build: Execute on a strategy to create a world-class developer experience for our external 3P partners, focusing on API design, versioning, security, discoverability, and usability.
• Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors, fostering a culture of empathetic technical excellence and proactive problem-solving.
• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Product Marketing, and Sales, to ensure the Ads API meets the needs of all stakeholders.
• Evolve: Learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities, staying up-to-date on trends and best practices in the Ads API space across the industry.

• Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale technical projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. Familiarity with experimentation, data-informed decision making, hypothesis design, and customer empathy
• Technical Ability: Expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Java, or C++) and ability to grow expertise in Python and Go.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex problems,…