Reddit - Staff Engineer, Ads Trust, Fraud and Safety
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Requirements
• Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale technical projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. • Backend Expertise: Strong experience in large-scale distributed systems and developing highly scalable and reliable backend services. • Backend Expertise: • Technical Ability: Expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Scala, Java, or C++) and ability to grow expertise in Python and Go. • Technical Ability: • Leadership: Demonstrated ability to disambiguate complex problems, align stakeholders with different priorities, and aggressively prioritize to execute effectively. • Leadership: • Communication: Excellent communication skills employed to drive toward consensus, navigate disagreements, and influence decisions across the engineering organization. • Communication: • Agency: A bias for action. The ability to identify what needs to be done, take the initiative to make it happen without waiting for direction, and finish the swing. • Agency: • Direct experience as a Tech Lead or in a similar function. • Previous success as part of an Ads team with a user base in the millions. • Experience in Ads Fraud, Ad review or Ads Brand Safety • Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable platforms. • Expertise in Python and/or Go. • Prior experience in Fraud/Malicious actors space • Proven track record of utilizing LLMs in production systems. • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off • Generous paid Parental Leave • Paid Volunteer time off • In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. • During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
Responsibilities
• Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high-leverage projects that accelerate the development of Fraud Detection to help Reddit achieve its ambitious goals. • Steer: • Architect: Help define the 2+ year technical roadmap for the platform, translating complex business needs into a clear strategy for highly available and performant backend services. • Architect: • Build: Execute on a strategy to create world-class Fraud Detection systems. • Build: • Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors, fostering a culture of empathetic technical excellence and proactive problem-solving. • Amplify: • Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Policy and Legal, to ensure Fraud Detection meets the needs of all stakeholders. • Collaborate: • Evolve: Learn and improve technical and non-technical abilities, staying up-to-date on trends and best practices in the Fraud Detection space across the industry. • Evolve:
Benefits
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off • Generous paid Parental Leave • Paid Volunteer time off
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