Staff Engineer, Ads Development Infra

at Reddit

Remote

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. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Staff Software Engineer - Ads Infrastructure Excellence

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Ads Infrastructure Excellence team owns scalable repeatable architecture components and developer tools to ensure efficiency, scalability and reliability of the shared infrastructure used to build and support Reddit Ads.

Our responsibilities include:

Evolution of the Reddit Ads stack - Bringing the Ads tech stack into the future leveraging existing Reddit centralized resources and going beyond when required by ads unique scaling and performance challenges.
Engineering velocity - Unlock the shortest path, without compromising on quality, to build from proof of concepts to fully productionized systems. We want to democratize developer velocity independently from the size or the amount of infra/system expertise a specific vertical team has.
Cloud resources & Data observability - Standardize and apply best practices among all the vertical teams to be able to understand Cloud and Business impact for any given product launch.
Cost of Revenue Tracking and Optimizations - Design, implement, and drive best practices for all development teams to ship cost efficient systems that can survive the test of time. The Ads Infrastructure team acts as the gate to validate the engineering excellence of a given system going live for millions of customers.

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the Ads Infrastructure Excellence team. As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to be the technical leader on the team and in the Ads Foundations organization. You must be able to take on ambiguous problems, design a solution, then lead other engineers in implementing that solution. You must also be able to identify problems independently, not just be assigned work to complete. Excellent skills in designing maintainable, scalable distributed systems are a must. Finally, mentorship is a requirement, you would be expected to make the people around you better.

What You’ll Do

Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers to create and maintain the most foundational components for Reddit Ads infrastructure.
Deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Reddit Ads services.
Lead large scale initiatives, like Infra re-architecture to enable Ads serving from multiple regions and cloud providers; develop and support dev / testing / pre-production environments for Ads services.
Identify gaps and emerging opportunities across Ads infrastructure, and lead strategic investments to address them.
Work cross functionally with all Ads engineering and product, in pursuit of the team's objectives.

Model a culture of technical curiosity, deep ownership, and high standards.

Partner with the Engineering manager and other leaders, to drive the team’s long term roadmap.

What We're Looking For

7+ years of experience designing and operating high performance infrastructure powering Ads, recommendations/search, or any other consumer facing products.
Previous experience with distributed systems at web scale (thousands of nodes, hundreds of systems)
Strong design and development experience building services/platforms leveraging cloud infrastructure systems - Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.
Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Argo, Flux, and other CNCF landscape projects.
Experience with systems observability, reliability, and operational best practices.
Strong focus on scalability, performance, user experience, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale and how to improve user experience through platforms.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire Ads engineering org.

Bonus Points

Experience driving infrastructure cost efficiency and performance optimization at scale.
Past experience technically leading large scale multi year re-architecture projects, resulting in significant improvements to reliability and scalability for large product areas.
Prior industry experience in Ads domain.

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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In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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The base pay range for this position is:

$217,000—$303,900 USD

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