Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Reddit's Ads Experimentation Platform team as an Engineering Manager and lead a world-class team of engineers. You will build and improve tools for A/B testing and experimentation in the Ads marketplace, focusing on high-scale, high-performance systems. Responsibilities include coaching and mentoring engineers, setting a data-informed decision-making culture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years managing engineering teams, and experience with various technologies like message queuing services and data processing frameworks. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive healthcare, 401k match, generous parental leave, and flexible vacation time.

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 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 syste
• Preferred experience in one or more of the following areas: Message Queuing Services (Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service), Data Processing Frameworks (Apache Spark, Apache Flink), Key Value Stores (Redis, DynamoDB, Memcached, Riak), Document based DBs (MongoDB, Cassandra), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos), ML Ops ((ML | Tensor | Kube)flow)

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off