Engineering Manager - Ads Targeting Modeling

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The team’s main mission is to build a targeting platform that would be responsible for creating and defining shared standards, low-latency infrastructure, and libraries for all Ads Targeting initiatives that drive quicker iteration, better observability, and a unified targeting experience. In addition to managing the targeting infrastructure, this team is also tasked with overseeing third-party audience products, developing audience size forecasting infrastructure, and implementing solutions for user targeting privacy.

Some example projects that the team will own:

• Design, optimize and build a distributed data storage system for indexing, caching, and serving terabytes of user and post data for ad serving and audience size forecasting.
• Design and build offline and online ML serving frameworks to bring ML models into production
• Scale our real-time ad candidate retrieval and filtering system hosted within the ad server with high QPS and low latency.
• Design, build and improve an observability tool for the targeting funnel that would produce business and engineering metrics. 
• Design, build and improve experimentation tooling for targeting product launches 
• Design and build a third-party API for custom audience generation integrations

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead, hire, and grow a high-caliber team of backend and ML infra engineers
• Develop, drive, and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the targeting infrastructure
• Be responsible for building Reddit Ads’ next generation of targeting infrastructure
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development
• Set and enforce a high-quality bar for code, system design, and verbal/written communication
• Be a strong mentor and cross-functional advocate for your team

Who You Might Be:

• 6+ years of experience building low latency real-time services infrastructures, big data pipelines, search clusters, distributed data stores 
• 2+ years of experience tech leading or managing engineering team
• Strong track record of defining direction, driving execution, working with cross-functional teams, and delivering impacts for a team 
• Passion for growing people and building team
• Effective communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into simple ideas depending on the audience
• Experience with the Ads business domain is a big plus
• Experience with OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Airflow, and Spark is a big plus

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

 

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In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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The base pay range for this position is:$230,000—$322,000 USD

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