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Engineering Manager - Ads Auto-Bidding

"The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.

Reddit

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 230k-322k USD

United States only
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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

At Reddit, advertising is our primary revenue driver—and we stand out by connecting advertisers with highly engaged, passionate communities. We’re building a large-scale business that fuels our broader mission, and we’re searching for leaders who thrive on tackling high-impact technological challenges to help us achieve that goal.

As the Engineering Manager for Auto-Bidding, you will lead a team responsible for designing and optimizing large-scale, real-time bidding systems that directly align with advertiser objectives. You’ll define the technical vision, shape the product roadmap, and ensure the team delivers significant, data-driven outcomes. By leveraging advanced machine learning models and real-time bidding techniques, your team will develop and enhance ad campaign optimizations that enable advertisers to maximize installs, conversions, or return on ad spend.

In addition, you’ll oversee vital initiatives—including a bid-based budget pacing system, key campaign optimization products like Maximize Conversions and Lowest Cost, and highly rigorous experiments that inform continual improvements. This role is central to Reddit’s success, ensuring advertisers’ budgetsare utilized efficiently while driving sustainable growth for the company.

Responsibilities:

Set Technical Vision Strategy

  • Define and execute the long-term roadmap for the Autobidding team, balancing innovation, efficiency, and revenue impact.
  • Collaborate with leadership to align technology investments with broader business objectives.

Develop Optimize Autobidding Solutions

  • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance autobidding algorithms and advertiser-facing products (e.g., Target CPA).
  • Ensure these systems meet or exceed campaign performance goals and reliability standards.

Mentor Grow Your Team

  • Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture, with a focus on technical mentorship and career development.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other engineering teams to ensure our bidding solutions align with product requirements and key performance indicators.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-engineering stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement

  • Champion best practices for model quality, system reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Identify opportunities to improve engineering velocity, reduce costs, and optimize performance through rigorous experimentation.

Requirements:

Experience Management

  • Engineering Leadership: At least 2 years of engineering management experience, ideally guiding machine learning or similarly technical teams.
  • Industry Tenure: 8+ years of professional experience in building and operating large-scale Ads or Marketplace systems.
  • People Management Team Building: Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow engineering teams. Demonstrated skills in performance management, hiring, team development, and fostering diverse, inclusive work environments.

Machine Learning Marketplace Expertise

  • Hands-On ML Proficiency: Practical experience with real-time serving, model development, and optimization.
  • Control Systems Algorithms: Familiarity with control systems (e.g., PID controllers), multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, or bidding/pricing optimization techniques.
  • Marketplace Optimization: Ability to design new bidding optimization products/algorithms and conduct rigorous A/B experiments to assess both business and marketplace impact.
  • Experimentation Data Analysis: Knowledge of metric design, experimentation methodologies, and large-scale data analysis.

System Architecture Scalability

  • Scalable Systems Data Pipelines: Expertise in architecting robust, high-performance serving systems, data processing pipelines, and real-time streaming solutions.
  • Ads Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with ads delivery, recommendation systems, marketplace dynamics, or targeting/optimization is preferred.

Strategic Vision Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Technical Strategy Execution: Adept at defining a clear technical vision aligned with the company’s goals, while overseeing day-to-day project execution.
  • Collaboration Communication: Comfortable working with cross-functional teams—including Product Management and Data Science—and able to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Adaptability Service Mindset: Embraces changing priorities and requirements with a solutions-focused approach, consistently seeking to support internal teams and external partners.

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

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:
$230,000$322,000 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

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"The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. Come for the cats, stay for the empathy.

Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed "the front page of the internet,"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa) with 130k+ communities and 430M+ users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps.

Reddit is home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection. Whether you're into breaking news, sports, TV fan theories, or a never-ending stream of the internet's cutest animals, there's a community on Reddit for you.

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