Staff Engineer, Ads Business Manager

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Business Manager team, you will develop a long-term technical strategy and drive execution. 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. This role needs someone with deep backend expertise who also has enough frontend experience to periodically unblock themselves.

• Define and drive the technical strategy for business identity, governance, permissions, and organizational management systems that serve both customer-facing and internal Reddit platforms.
• 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 drive adoption of Business Manager and Business Hub capabilities across Reddit, shaping shared business identity, governance, permissions, and organizational infrastructure used by multiple products and teams.

Qualifications

• 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).

Requirements

• 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.

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