Staff Engineer, Ads Business Manager

42d•$217,000 - $303,900•Remote

About The Position

Reddit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Ads Business Manager team. This team is responsible for the foundational business platform that enables advertisers, agencies, and enterprise customers to operate effectively on Reddit. They build and scale systems for business creation, structuring, security, governance, and sharing across Reddit's Ads Platform. The team's scope includes Business Manager, Business Hub, business identity, permissions, onboarding, collaboration, and governance capabilities, aiming to establish a unified business identity model and provide tools for managing access, compliance, security, and organizational operations at scale.

Requirements

7+ years software engineering experience building production services at scale.
Ads domain experience.
Previous experience as a Tech Lead or similar function.
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 AI tools for all steps of the development cycle.
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).

Nice To Haves

Experience building identity, access management, governance, administration, or enterprise platform solutions for large-scale customers.
Ability to make UI changes leveraging AI tools like Codex.
Experience building solutions for advertising agencies or other global enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

Develop a long-term technical strategy and drive execution for business identity, governance, permissions, and organizational management systems.
Lead large cross-functional projects end to end, from concept, design, and implementation through to launch and driving adoption.
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.
Make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications.
Collaborate closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to drive adoption of Business Manager and Business Hub capabilities across Reddit.