# Senior Staff Engineer, Ads

**Company**: Reddit Inc.
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $232,500-$325,500 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7624311
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4548894f-210

## Description

We're seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the technical development of our advertiser growth domain. In this role, you'll 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 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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading multiple teams to change the shape of Reddit's business and solve problems for various customers

- Defining the 2+ year technical roadmap for the platform and connecting complex business needs into a clear strategy

- Creating the future version of the ads manager, business hub, API, and off-platform experiences

- Mentoring, coaching, and collaborating with other technical contributors to foster a culture of empathetic technical excellence and proactive problem-solving

- Working together across product surfaces with various cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Design, Data Science, Product Marketing, and Sales

Requirements:

- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading large-scale technical projects

- Expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Java, or C++)

- Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders with different priorities, and aggressively prioritize to execute effectively

- Excellent communication skills employed to drive toward consensus, navigate disagreements, and influence decisions across the engineering organization

- Bias for action and ability to identify what needs to be done, take the initiative to make it happen without waiting for direction, and finish the swing

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

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- general-purpose programming language
- leadership
- communication
- bias for action

### Nice to have
- experimentation
- data-informed decision making
- hypothesis design
- customer empathy