Senior Solutions Engineer, Reddit

• 6-10 years’ experience in AdTech/MarTech at a top-line publisher, DSP, SSP, Ad Network or Ad Agency preferably as a Solutions or Integrations or Professional Services Engineer
• A firm understanding of enterprise integration methodologies, best practices and API architecture
• Strong technical background with hands on professional or personal experience in many of the following areas:
• Web development, mobile development, device platforms & architectures, ETL concepts and workflows, high availability systems and business continuity
• Development experience in one or more of the following languages:
• Java, Javascript, Go, Node, Python, React
• Strong critical-thinking, analytical, logical, and results-oriented skill set
• Understanding of log parsing, device logs, API response codes and other technologies related to advertising required (ie Charles Log/Fiddler)
• Adept with writing database queries and data analysis

Desirable

• Reddit is seeking a Solutions Engineer to support our rapidly growing advertising business
• Do you have a knack for explaining technical concepts to various audiences
• Do you love evangelizing technical concepts, solving problems, and want to play a major role in increasing the adoption of best practices with our customers
• Reddit offers a uniquely flexible and human product to our advertisers by offering everything from live engagement campaigns to branded in-browser video games to fully native in-feed placements
• If you’d like to help define what it means to be a Solutions Engineer at Reddit and be part of the team that is turning Reddit into a sustainable, long-term business, come join us!
• You will be responsible for partnering with our Sales organization by removing technical and business related obstacles in front of a sale, advocating for customer interests to relevant internal teams, and creating compelling technical content
• You get excited talking to engineers, product managers, and growth marketers
• Additionally, you’ll represent internal business teams in articulating the needs of our customers and the market back to our Engineering and Product leadership
• Gain in-depth knowledge of our advertising platform, all the way from the front-end tools for ad creation to predictive modeling, delivery, auctions, and attribution
• Identify the root cause for poor performing creatives, low fill rates, or other potential revenue-harming incidents
• Ensure the success of customer POCs through effective management of success criteria, planning and execution
• Distill and advocate customer interests, needs, and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Sales
• Maintain awareness of internal roadmap and new product features to evangelize with sales/customers and provide their feedback to Reddit product management and engineering groups
• Influence the improvement of Solutions Engineering processes and practices
• Continuously learn and update skills and keep aware of industry trends in the integration and data management space
• Work with the Ads Engineering team to help:
• Define the next generation architecture for applications to support Reddit technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Identify gaps in the existing system and designing alternatives that are scalable, robust, and easy to maintain
• Review existing documentation and test cases. Contribute to the evolution of testing strategies and test case coverage across our advertising stack
• Contribute to the vision, strategy, and execution for the Ad Operations, QA, Product, and Engineering groups across the Reddit platform
• Leverage your world-class communication skills to clearly summarize and articulate simple solutions to complex problems to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Exhibit exceptional client-facing skills. You are equally comfortable presenting to C-level staff both internally and externally as you are presenting to an external-facing client
• Be able to hit the ground running. Have the capabilities to rapidly absorb information and come up-to-speed quickly as a self-starter
• Create extensive documentation on all processes and ad guidelines/specifications and educate operational, product, and sales stakeholders as required