Staff Software Engineer, Ads Business Manager

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Team Objective

The Business Manager team is central to increasing adoption among Ad Agencies and Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMBs). Our primary focus is building the foundational platform that empowers advertisers to operate effectively on Reddit. This includes owning the systems for how businesses are created, structured, secured, and shared across the entire Ads Platform and other Reddit surfaces, specifically managing identity, permissions, onboarding, and collaboration between different businesses.

About the Team

On a day-to-day basis, engineers tackle complex, high-stakes challenges at the core of Reddit’s Ads Platform which include innovating on permissions systems, building agency and LCS solutions, and driving adoption among Reddit's largest advertisers. From ideation to delivery, our engineers are trusted with end-to-end ownership of their projects, working closely in cross-functional collaboration with product managers, UX designers, and partner teams. This hands-on approach means every team member plays a direct and visible role in delivering high-impact, user-focused solutions for some of Reddit’s most strategic advertisers.

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Business Manager team, you will develop a long-term technical strategy to unlock the next tier of agency enablement on the Reddit Ads Platform. This is a high-agency position for an engineer who can navigate ambiguity and take decisive ownership of the technical direction in collaboration with other engineers, teams, and stakeholders. It is best classified as the Tech Lead archetype of Staff Engineer, and the most successful candidates will have experience serving in this capacity previously.

A successful candidate will:

• 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.

Qualifications

General Engineering 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).

Preferred

• Previous experience as a Tech Lead or similar function. 
• Experience building solutions for advertising agencies or other global enterprise customers.

Our Stack

Go, Python; gRPC/Thrift; Kafka; Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, SpiceDB (ReBAC); Kubernetes; AWS/GCP

Benefits: 

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Generous paid Parental Leave  
• Paid Volunteer time off

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