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Engineering Manager, Advanced Signals (SWE)

Reddit Remote - United States Full-time Ads Engineering Posted Jul 15, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Reddit

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Employee Rating
3.5
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What employees love

  • Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
  • 'Default Open' culture with comprehensive benefits and flexible time off

What could be better

  • Inconsistent management and shifting strategies create uncertainty across teams
  • 54% recommend rate — recent layoffs and reorgs have dampened morale
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About the Role

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Role Description

As the Engineering Manager of the Ads Advanced Signals Team at Reddit, you'll lead the team responsible for the APIs, integrations, and tooling that power both inbound and outbound signals for Reddit Ads, which includes helping advertisers

What You’ll Do

Ads Advanced Signals Technical Vision

Your primary mission will be to scale and evolve the APIs, integrations, and tooling that power Reddit’s off-platform signals ecosystem. This includes both collecting high-quality inbound signals and delivering outbound data products that advertisers and partners use to measure and optimize performance. There is significant room to guide technical vision that will have a meaningful impact on Reddit’s ads business.

Execution

You will own the execution of your team’s roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery. You will prioritize both planned projects and emergent asks. You will coach Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. You will identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.

Career Development

You will help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You will constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.

Quality Control

You will work with your team to develop processes and tooling that constantly improve the quality of our products and systems, ensuring that they meet product requirements, customer needs, and SLAs.

Organizational Alignment

You will serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals. You will become an expert in the digital ads business and our customer needs. You will participate in and challenge prioritization decisions. You will communicate your team’s work and set expectations with external stakeholders.

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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/.

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The base salary range for this position is:
$217,000$303,900 USD

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Reddit?
Reddit has a work-life balance score of 3.5/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Reddit’s culture like?
Reddit is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, equity, learning, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.8/5. Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
How many open roles does Reddit have?
Reddit currently has 191 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
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