Sr. Engineering Manager, Shopping Ads

Reddit

Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$292,500–$409,500 / yr
Posted
5 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $351k
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $151,287–$232,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $351k versus about $192k for comparable roles.

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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

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TL;DR · Sr. Engineering Manager, Shopping Ads

The Sr. Engineering Manager role at Reddit's Shopping Ads team involves leading a high-performing group of software and machine learning engineers to develop systems that enhance the performance, relevance, and scalability of Shopping Ads experiences across Reddit’s platform. This hands-on technical leader will drive architecture reviews, system design, and execution while managing engineering teams focused on Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) and Product Listing Ads (PLA). Key responsibilities include improving scalability, reliability, and operational excellence in large-scale distributed systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver complex initiatives, and fostering a culture of technical rigor and pragmatic execution. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience leading engineering teams, deep expertise in ads ranking, retrieval, targeting, recommendation systems, and ML-driven optimization, and familiarity with modern commerce advertising trends.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical execution for Dynamic Product Ads and Product Listing Ads systems.
  • Contribute to architecture reviews, design, and debugging complex production issues.
  • Improve scalability, latency, reliability, relevance, and operational excellence in Shopping Ads.
  • Drive simplification and platformization efforts to enhance developer velocity and reduce complexity.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and pragmatic execution.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience, including leading teams.
  • Strong hands-on technical expertise in ads ranking, retrieval, targeting, recommendation systems, and engagement modeling.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or ML systems in production environments.
  • Proven ability to operate as a technical lead manager (TLM), driving architecture and execution while managing engineers.
  • Extensive experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver complex initiatives in ads platforms.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills for aligning teams around technical strategy and business priorities.

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