Staff Software Engineer, Ads Insights

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Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to join the Ads Insights team to shape the future of Reddit's monetization strategy by sitting at the intersection of Reddit’s rich dataset, artificial intelligence, and the high growth Ads business supporting Reddit. As a key member of this fast-growing team, you will have lots of ownership and opportunity to be at the cutting edge of building AI-based intelligence tools from zero-to-one.

The Ads Insights team is responsible for the data infrastructure and insights tools that help our sellers, ad agencies, and advertisers find and buy against trends and opportunities happening on Reddit. By making it easy to discover, explore, and understand Redditor interests, trends, and sentiments, this team helps enable deeper engagement from key advertising partners.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Insights team, you will develop a long-term technical strategy and help architect the team’s services and datasets to unlock the next tier of insights that we’ve just started scratching the surface of. The ideal candidate will leverage their deep knowledge in large datasets, AI/LLMs, and scaling services to develop the future of insights both internally within Reddit, and build for self-serve insights for our advertising partners and Ad agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the backend and data infrastructure for efficient, accurate, and optimized access to Reddit data
• Scalability: Architect and implement scalable solutions that can handle both the long term growth in the size of our data, and the scalability of the support in accessing it across a growing number of needs within the company
• Integration: Collaborate with other teams and functions to work towards consolidating all insights about Reddit’s data to be powered by the same platform
• Data Management: Oversee data storage, retrieval, indexing, and query optimization strategies to ensure fast and reliable access to our data. This may include migrating the data to the right datastore given the company’s growing needs
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineers across the company, as well as our internal and external users (sales, marketing, advertisers) to ensure the team is building the right products for our short and long-term goals
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers on the team, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify technical challenges and propose innovative solutions that align with the team's goals and contribute to the overall success of advertiser revenue growth

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Technical leader in the execution of large scale projects from 0 to 1.
• Experience with LLMs and generative AI
• Experience in working with very large datasets, ideally with multiple datastore technologies
• Experience partnering with product managers and designers to build new user-facing products
• Experience in solving complex system scaling and latency performance problems
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Extensive software development experience in one or more general purpose languages: Python, Golang, Rust, Java, Javascript, etc

Bonus Points:

• Data Storytelling / Social Listening
• Ads Industry experience

Benefits:

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