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Own the technical relationship with Reddit's biggest ad partners — code alongside them, not just advise

Reddit's Ads Business Engineering team sits between engineering, product, sales, and biz dev, turning advertiser and partner needs into shipped platform integrations. This Senior Business Engineer role is a hands-on technical-advisor position: prototyping proof-of-concepts inside partner codebases, driving Reddit's Ads API adoption, and unblocking high-impact integrations end to end.

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What this interview tests

  • Technical partner/solutions consulting for an advertising API platform
  • Hands-on coding in partner or Reddit codebases (Python/Java/JS/Node.js, backend/API focus)
  • REST APIs, HTTP, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, SDK design
  • Cross-org coordination across engineering, product, sales, and biz dev
  • Onboarding, testing, and pre-launch support for integrations
  • Escalation handling for complex/high-impact partner issues

Common question themes

Walk through an integration you built directly in a partner's or client's codebase

How do you influence a product roadmap as the 'voice of the partner' with no direct authority over the roadmap owners

Describe debugging a complex OAuth2/OpenID Connect or API integration issue with an external party

Tell me about an escalation on a high-impact partner integration you had to resolve quickly

How do you balance being a technical advisor vs. actually implementing the fix yourself

What does 'ecosystem of developers' scaling look like in an AdTech / advertiser API context

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