Engineering Manager, Ads

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Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic.

We're evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone worldwide. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we're excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one - join us!

This is a new team in Reddit Ads. The team's mission is to build a targeting platform that would be responsible for creating and defining shared standards, low-latency infrastructure, and libraries for all Ads Targeting initiatives that drive quicker iteration, better observability, and a unified targeting experience.

Some example projects that the team will own:

• Design, optimize and build a distributed data storage system for indexing, caching, and serving terabytes of user and post data for ad serving.
• Design and build offline and online ML serving frameworks to bring ML models into production
• Scale our real-time ad candidate retrieval and filtering system hosted within the ad server with high QPS and low latency.
• Design, build and improve an observability tool for the targeting funnel that would produce business and engineering metrics.
• Refactor the ad serving funnel to pass new targeting signals into the prediction models.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, hire, and grow a high-caliber team of backend and ML infra engineers
• Develop, drive, and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the targeting infrastructure
• Work closely with Targeting product teams such as first-party targeting, audiences, and shopping on critical product launches.
• Be responsible for building Reddit Ads' next generation of targeting infrastructure
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development
• Set and enforce a high-quality bar for code, system design, and verbal/written communication
• Be a strong mentor and cross-functional advocate for your team

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience building low latency real-time services infrastructures, big data pipelines, search clusters, distributed data stores
• 2+ years of experience tech leading or managing engineering team
• Strong track record of defining direction, driving execution, working with cross-functional teams, and delivering impacts for a team
• Passion for growing people and building team
• Effective communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into simple ideas depending on the audience
• Experience with the Ads business domain is a big plus
• Experience with OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Airflow, and Spark is a big plus

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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: $198,200 - $297,300.

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