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