Engineering Manager, Compute Platform Orchestration

Summary

Join Reddit's Infrastructure organization as an Engineering Manager and lead a team responsible for building and maintaining the cloud compute production environment. You will work with the team to select, scope, and drive high-impact projects that align with Reddit's goals. Responsibilities include hiring, onboarding, and building your team, mentoring team members, and collaborating with various teams across Reddit Engineering. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of experience managing high-performing teams and 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and compute platforms. Strong technical judgment, a focus on scalability and user experience, and excellent communication skills are essential. This is a high-impact role with significant influence on Reddit's technology stack and direct business impact.

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience in people management of high performing platform or infrastructure engineering teams, including setting clear goals, driving execution, developing product roadmaps, and supporting career growth
• 5+ years experience on cloud infrastructure and compute platforms
• This experience should include ample time developing and shipping software
• Strong technical judgment and ability to evaluate the quality of engineering decisions related to cloud infrastructure systems (Kubernetes, AWS, GCE). Accountability for the team's technical output and operational decisions
• Strong focus on scalability, performance, user experience, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale and how to improve user experience through platforms
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org

Responsibilities

• Lead: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals to scale our infrastructure to a large multiple of what it is today by abstracting away the technical details of our compute infrastructure by building a developer-facing platform
• Build: Hire, onboard, and build out your team to execute on a strategy and create a more efficient, scalable, and user friendly compute platform
• Amplify: Mentor your ICs and be a leader for the team
• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of teams across Reddit Engineering
• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Argo, Flux, and other CNCF landscape projects is a huge plus

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