Staff Engineer, Ads Development Infra

Details

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. 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. The team focuses on evolving the Ads tech stack, improving engineering velocity, standardizing cloud resources and data observability, and driving cost-of-revenue tracking and optimizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Ads Infrastructure Excellence team as the technical leader and work collaboratively with software engineers to create and maintain foundational components for Reddit Ads infrastructure.
• Deliver software to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Reddit Ads services.
• Lead large-scale initiatives (for example, infra re-architecture to enable Ads serving from multiple regions and cloud providers) and develop/support dev, testing, and 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 Ads engineering and product teams to meet the team's objectives.
• Model a culture of technical curiosity, deep ownership, and high standards; partner with engineering management and other leaders to drive long-term roadmap.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing and operating high-performance infrastructure powering Ads, recommendations/search, or other consumer-facing products.
• Strong experience with distributed systems at web scale (thousands of nodes, hundreds of systems).
• Design and development experience building services/platforms leveraging cloud infrastructure systems such as Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP.
• Experience with 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.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise across the Ads engineering organization.

Bonus Points

• Experience driving infrastructure cost efficiency and performance optimization at scale.
• Past technical leadership of large, multi-year re-architecture projects that improved reliability and scalability.
• Prior industry experience in the Ads domain.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• 401(k) match
• Family planning support
• Gender-affirming care
• Mental health and coaching benefits
• Flexible vacation and Reddit global days off
• Generous paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time off

Pay Transparency

• Base pay range: $217,000 - $303,900 USD
• Eligible to receive equity (RSUs) and, depending on position, may be eligible for commission. U.S.-based benefits and additional details available on Reddit careers pages.

Other Notes

• Role is remote within the United States. Interviews for select roles/locations may be recorded and transcribed; candidates may opt out prior to scheduled interviews. Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.