Senior Staff Engineer, Ads
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
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Senior Staff Engineer, Ads at Reddit in Remote (United States). UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Lead: Work across multiple teams to change the shape of Reddit’s business, and solve problems for many different customers, from SMBs to Agencies to API users
- Architect: Help define the 2+ year technical roadmap for the platform, connecting many complex business needs into a clear strategy for the right technical foundation for the org to execute quickly and with rigor.
- Build: Create the future version of the ads manager, business hub, API, and off-platform experiences, bringing ambitious projects from conception to launch and beyond.
- Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors, fostering a culture of empathetic technical excellence and proactive problem-solving.
- Collaborate: Work together across product surfaces with a variety of cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Design, Data Science, Product Marketing, and Sales.
- Evolve: Learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities, staying up-to-date on trends and best practices in the Ads industry.
What a strong candidate brings
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- Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale technical projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. Familiarity with experimentation, data-informed decision making, hypothesis design, and customer empathy.
- Technical Ability: Expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Java, or C++) and ability to grow expertise in Python and Go.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders with different priorities, and aggressively prioritize to execute effectively. Strong ability to deliver through others as well as doing hands-on work
- Communication: Excellent communication skills employed to drive toward consensus, navigate disagreements, and influence decisions across the engineering organization.
- Agency: A bias for action. The ability to identify what needs to be done, take the initiative to make it happen without waiting for direction, and finish the swing.
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
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- 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
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