Software Engineering Manager, Ads Reporting

Reddit

Job Summary

Reddit is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Ads Reporting team. This role involves leading two critical workstreams: Reporting Foundations, focusing on platform reliability and scalability, and Proactive Reporting, dedicated to delivering actionable insights to advertisers. The manager will lead, coach, and grow a team of full stack product and backend engineers, collaborate with product and design, and own the full development cycle from ideation to launch, shaping the future of Reddit's Ads platform.

Must Have

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of full stack product and backend engineers
  • Collaborate with product management and design functions to discover and build new ways to communicate value
  • Maintain and enhance team culture of fast iteration, experimentation, and collaboration
  • Ensure long term success of both product and people growth
  • Participate in and own the full development cycle: ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, launch
  • Collaborate with multiple teams across the Ads org to maintain and increase advertisers’ trust and optimize their success
  • Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field
  • Engineering leadership experience working across multiple teams
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional efforts and driving alignment
  • Experience working with multiple teams in product & design
  • Knowledge of full stack product development practices

Good to Have

  • Experience working on advertiser platform or related B2B reporting products
  • Familiarity with Python, Golang, React, Airflow, Druid

Perks & Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job Description

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 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com

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The Ads Reporting team is poised to rapidly innovate and grow, providing critical insights and foundational data for advertisers on Reddit. This team manages two distinct but complementary core workstreams: Reporting Foundations and Proactive Reporting. The Reporting Foundations workstream focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and data correctness of the Ads Reporting platform, ensuring technical scalability, enhancing monitoring, and building robust data pipelines for the fast-growing ads business. Meanwhile, the Proactive Reporting workstream is dedicated to delivering actionable recommendations and deeper insights to advertisers via Ads Manager, aiming to communicate Reddit's value and empower advertisers to reach their full potential on the platform. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead both of these crucial work streams, shaping the future of the Reddit Ads platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of full stack product and backend engineers
  • Collaborate with product management and design functions to discover and build new ways to communicate the value of Reddit to our users, and be a thought leader in this process.
  • Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast iteration, experimentation, and collaboration.
  • Ensure the long term success of both the product and the growth of our people.
  • Participate in and be the ultimate owner of the full development cycle: product ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be brainstorming, giving feedback on design docs, product specs and mocks, and generally helping out wherever is needed.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams across the Ads org to maintain and increase advertisers’ trust on Reddit, and optimize their success on the platform

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field
  • Engineering leadership experience working across multiple teams
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering; experience developing large scale customer-facing reporting solutions is highly desirable
  • Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional efforts that span different teams, and driving alignment
  • Experience working with multiple teams in product & design
  • Knowledge of full stack product development practices

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working on advertiser platform or related B2B reporting products
  • Familiarity with team’s tech stack: Python, golang, React, Airflow, Druid

Technologies include

  • Languages: Typescript, Go, Python
  • Frameworks: React, Thrift, Baseplate, Airflow
  • Datastores: Postgres, Druid, Redis, BigQuery
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave

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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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To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD

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