Staff Backend Software Engineer, Ads Business Manager

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.

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.

Qualifications:

• 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