Staff Software Engineer, Ads Business Manager

12h•Remote

About The Position

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.

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).

Nice To Haves

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

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.