[Remote] Sr. Engineering Manager, Shopping Ads
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community of communities and is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager for their Shopping Ads Engineering team. The role involves leading a team focused on building performant Shopping Ads systems and driving technical execution while remaining involved in architecture and problem solving.
Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing team of software and machine learning engineers focused on Shopping Ads targeting, retrieval, ranking, and engagement models
- Drive technical execution for Dynamic Product Ads and Product Listing Ads across ads targeting, candidate retrieval, ranking integrations, model features, and engagement optimization
- Act as a hands-on technical leader by contributing to architecture reviews, technical design, debugging complex production issues, and guiding implementation decisions
- Partner closely with ML Platform, Ads Serving, Product, Data Science, Measurement, and Infrastructure teams to define roadmaps and deliver advertiser impact
- Improve scalability, latency, reliability, relevance, experimentation quality, and operational excellence across Shopping Ads systems
- Drive simplification and platformization efforts that improve developer velocity and reduce operational complexity
- Establish strong engineering practices around system design, experimentation, code quality, observability, and production ownership
- Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of technical rigor, accountability, speed, and pragmatic execution
- Identify architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, and scaling risks, and proactively drive solutions across organizational boundaries
- Stay current with industry trends in commerce advertising, recommendation systems, retrieval and ranking architectures, and Shopping Ads optimization
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams
- Strong hands-on technical depth in ads ranking, retrieval, targeting, recommendation systems, engagement modeling, or ML-driven optimization systems
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or ML systems in production
- Proven ability to operate as a technical lead manager (TLM), driving architecture and execution while managing and developing engineers
- Experience partnering with Product, ML Platform, Ads Serving, Data Science, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance technical quality, execution speed, scalability, and operational reliability
- Excellent debugging, prioritization, and execution skills in fast-moving production environments
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to align teams around technical strategy and business priorities
- Familiarity with modern ads ecosystem trends, commerce advertising, and recommendation architectures is a plus
Benefits
- 100% remote opportunity (we have 4 office locations for hybrid/onsite work preference in NY, SF, LA and Chicago)
- Competitive salary and equity options
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) & workplace perks (home office set up stipend etc)
- Generous 401k matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave (4+ months)
- Family planning support
- Paid volunteer time off
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Commission (depending on the position offered)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation
- Parental leave
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