
Staff Backend Software Engineer, Ads Business Manager
Reddit, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $217,000 - $303,900 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop a long-term technical strategy to unlock the next tier of agency enablement on the Reddit Ads Platform.
- Lead large cross-functional projects end to end, ensuring the highest quality and performance.
- Have a strong product sense and run customer interviews, translating data and user feedback into features.
- Mentor engineers and leaders, sharing industry knowledge, contributing to the technical growth of the team.
- Disambiguate complex problems and align stakeholders with different priorities.
- Make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate Business Manager capabilities into the broader infrastructure.
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).
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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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringGoPythongRPCThriftAPI designdistributed systemsdata modelingevent-driven architecturessystem scaling
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringproblem solvingstakeholder alignmentcollaborationleadershipcustomer interviewingdata translationproject managementcross-functional coordination