The Business Manager team owns the foundational business platform that enables advertisers, agencies, and enterprise customers to operate effectively on Reddit. We build and scale the systems that define how businesses are created, structured, secured, governed, and shared across Reddit's Ads Platform and other Reddit surfaces.
Our scope includes Business Manager, Business Hub, business identity, permissions, onboarding, collaboration, and governance capabilities. We are responsible for establishing a unified business identity model across Reddit and providing the tooling, controls, and policy frameworks that allow customers and internal teams to manage access, compliance, security, and organizational operations at scale.
On a day-to-day basis, engineers tackle complex, high-stakes challenges at the core of Reddit’s Ads Platform which include building business identity infrastructure, governance and access-control systems, Business Hub experiences, agency enablement capabilities, and enterprise-scale collaboration workflows. From ideation to delivery, our engineers are trusted with end-to-end ownership of their projects, working closely in cross-functional collaboration with product managers, UX designers, and partner teams. This hands-on approach means every team member plays a direct and visible role in delivering high-impact, user-focused solutions for some of Reddit’s most strategic advertisers.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Ads Business Manager team, you will develop a long-term technical strategy and drive execution. This is a high-agency position for an engineer who can navigate ambiguity and take decisive ownership of the technical direction in collaboration with other engineers, teams, and stakeholders. It is best classified as the Tech Lead archetype of Staff Engineer, and the most successful candidates will have experience serving in this capacity previously. This role needs someone with deep backend expertise who also has enough frontend experience to periodically unblock themselves.
General Engineering Requirements
Preferred Requirements
Go, Python; gRPC/Thrift; Kafka; Postgres, BigQuery, Redis, Cassandra, SpiceDB (ReBAC); Kubernetes; AWS/GCP; Javascript, Typescript
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