Senior Staff Engineer - Ads Privacy
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 Senior 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.
8+ 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 Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
#li-remote
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
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/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$232,500—$325,500 USD
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Senior Staff Engineer - Ads Privacy
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 Senior 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.
8+ 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 Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
#li-remote
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
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/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$232,500—$325,500 USD