Senior Engineering Manager, Reddit
Shopping Ads
$292.5-409.5k
+ Equity options
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$292.5-409.5k
+ Equity options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate can operate as both an engineering manager and a technical lead manager (TLM), bringing strong ML systems judgment, execution rigor, and the ability to unblock complex technical work
- 8+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams
- Strong hands-on technical depth in ads ranking, retrieval, targeting, recommendation systems, engagement modeling, or ML-driven optimization systems
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or ML systems in production
- Proven ability to operate as a technical lead manager (TLM), driving architecture and execution while managing and developing engineers
- Experience partnering with Product, ML Platform, Ads Serving, Data Science, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance technical quality, execution speed, scalability, and operational reliability
- Excellent debugging, prioritization, and execution skills in fast-moving production environments
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to align teams around technical strategy and business priorities
- Familiarity with modern ads ecosystem trends, commerce advertising, and recommendation architectures is a plus
What the job involves
- The Shopping Ads Engineering team builds the systems that power performant, relevant, and scalable Shopping Ads experiences across Reddit’s Ads platform, including Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) and Product Listing Ads (PLA)
- The team focuses on Shopping Ads targeting, retrieval, and engagement modeling to connect advertisers with high-intent users and improve downstream ads performance
- We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead this team. This leader will drive technical execution across Shopping Ads systems while remaining deeply involved in architecture, system design, and technical problem solving
- Lead a high-performing team of software and machine learning engineers focused on Shopping Ads targeting, retrieval, ranking, and engagement models
- Drive technical execution for Dynamic Product Ads and Product Listing Ads across ads targeting, candidate retrieval, ranking integrations, model features, and engagement optimization
- Act as a hands-on technical leader by contributing to architecture reviews, technical design, debugging complex production issues, and guiding implementation decisions
- Partner closely with ML Platform, Ads Serving, Product, Data Science, Measurement, and Infrastructure teams to define roadmaps and deliver advertiser impact
- Improve scalability, latency, reliability, relevance, experimentation quality, and operational excellence across Shopping Ads systems
- Drive simplification and platformization efforts that improve developer velocity and reduce operational complexity
- Establish strong engineering practices around system design, experimentation, code quality, observability, and production ownership
- Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of technical rigor, accountability, speed, and pragmatic execution
- Identify architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, and scaling risks, and proactively drive solutions across organizational boundaries
- Stay current with industry trends in commerce advertising, recommendation systems, retrieval and ranking architectures, and Shopping Ads optimization
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 100,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment, and sports to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 52M daily users and more than 50B monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddits stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation,m connection, and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(Co-Founder & CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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