Staff Engineer, Ads Privacy - Remote - United States

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Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit

The Ads Privacy team is a new and rapidly growing team with a foundational role to play in Reddit's Ads business. We are building the technical infrastructure for responsible growth. Our core purpose is to be the enabler of velocity for all of Ads Engineering; we aim to centralize regulatory compliance, abstract the complexity of privacy constraints, and maximize the utility of privatized data. As a Staff Engineer, you will be defining the technical vision for widespread, cross-organizational initiatives. This means working with partner teams like Security, Legal, and Infrastructure to deliver large-scale systems that allow the entire Ads organization to move faster, reduce regulatory risk, and keep user trust at the center of every decision.

This role requires not just deep expertise in Ads and Privacy engineering, but a genuine talent for listening to, understanding, and aligning people who have different priorities and viewpoints. If you're someone who is exceptional at bringing clarity and consensus to complex, multi-team challenges, join us and help architect a system that scales our business and centralizes user privacy in Ads.

Role Scope & Responsibilities:

• Understand and audit the current state of privacy in Ads, and architect solutions for critical initiatives.
• Collaborate to form the long term technical vision and strategy for Ads Privacy for the next 2+ years. 
• Lead large cross-functional projects end to end, from concept, design, implementation, to rollout, ensuring the highest quality and performance.
• Build a privacy platform that all teams in Ads can integrate with to access necessary data in a scalable and auditable fashion.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, data scientists, backend software engineers, fullstack engineers, as well as machine learning engineers. Also work closely with security, legal, and privacy XFN.
• Mentor engineers and leaders, share industry knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team. 
• Stay updated on state-of-the-art products and technologies, recognizing promising innovations, identifying gaps, and adapting them to Reddit's unique platform and community.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar STEM field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep familiarity with Ads privacy challenges (GDPR, CCPA, ePD, ATT, etc.) and experience delivering high Ads performance in line with privacy needs.
• Capable of acting as an individual contributor who can design, implement, test, and launch complex product and infrastructure changes across the entire Ads stack.
• Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional efforts that span different teams, and driving alignment between diverse stakeholders
• Experience leading strategic implementation and planning for risk and growth

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has diverse Ads experience spanning (but not limited to) Optimization, Delivery, Targeting, Ranking, Bidding, Reporting, etc.
• A strong understanding of industry trends in the Privacy Enhancing Technology space.
• Experience with Go, Python, Scala or Javascript
• Understanding of ML development and principles

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave  

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The base salary range for this position is:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD

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