Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Reddit's Ads Foundations team as a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Infrastructure team. This remote-friendly role, based near the SF Bay Area or NYC office, requires 8+ years of SWE experience and 3+ years managing engineering teams. You will coach, build, and lead a team, execute a prioritized infrastructure roadmap, and foster data-informed decision-making. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams and participating in design and code reviews. Reddit offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, and generous paid time off, including parental leave.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience as a SWE
• 3+ years managing (including coaching, mentoring, developing) engineering teams
• 2+ years in the capacity of tech lead in charge of systems & architecture design
• Experience with at least two general programming languages such as Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work effectively with product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Coach, Motivate, Build, Hire, and Lead a world-class team of passionate Infrastructure engineers with a knack for high scale/high performance Ads delivery systems
• Lead, coordinate, and execute a coherent vision for a ruthlessly prioritized infrastructure roadmap based on business needs
• Set and support a culture of data-informed decision making, with efficient processes and strong transparency
• Facilitate the collaboration between the different product/vertical teams making use of Ads Infrastructure and the partner and core platform teams across Reddit
• Participating in design and coding reviews: You will review work by your team members and provide feedback to ensure that it meets the team's standards for quality, performance and best practices
• Collaborating with cross-functional team leads (EMs, PMs, DSs) to understand business requirements and translate them into technical directions for the Ads Infrastructure roadmap in conjunction with the rest of the Ads Foundations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing Infrastructure or Platform-y teams
• Experience with Ads
• Experience with Technical Program Management
• Industry relevant or scientific contribution in the field of DevOps, Infrastructure, High scalability/Big Data systems
• Experience in Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Experience in Message Queuing Services (Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service)
• Experience in Data Processing Frameworks (Apache Spark, Apache Flink)
• Experience in Key Value Stores (Redis, DynamoDB, Memcached, Riak)
• Experience in Document based DBs (MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Experience in ML Ops ((ML | Tensor | Kube)flow)

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