Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

Summary

Join Reddit's Site Reliability Engineering team as an Engineering Manager and lead a high-performing team in ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of Reddit's systems and services. You will set clear goals, track progress, and support multiple product teams with expertise in cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include optimizing availability, latency, and performance, as well as managing emergency response and capacity planning. You will also build and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a growth-oriented environment. This role requires strong technical judgment, experience with distributed systems, and a track record of assembling high-functioning teams. The ideal candidate will have experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and GCE.

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience in leading and developing high-performing site reliability or infrastructure engineering teams, including setting clear goals, tracking metrics, and supporting career growth and coaching distributed, remote teams to high performance
• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment systems. Experience with Go, Kubernetes, Argo, and Flux is a plus
• 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
• Experience designing, deploying, building or managing distributed systems of significant scale
• Track record of assembling a high functioning team
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Set clear goals for your team, defining success metrics, and track progress towards achieving those goals and contribute to the overall Site Reliability Engineering strategy
• Support multiple Reddit product teams with expertise in cloud compute infrastructure (Kubernetes, etc.) to optimize availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Ensure our infrastructure can scale to a large multiple of what it is today
• Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions
• Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Reddit’s SRE priorities across all of our products
• Support the reliable operation of these systems as a Platform for Reddit products, and allow us to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users
• Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internal supported options (Golang, Redis, etc)
• Support the full talent lifecycle for your team, including hiring, culture-building, growth, and performance management. Coach and develop your direct reports, providing career development plans and fostering a growth-oriented team environment
• Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles
• Set and support a culture of metrics driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency
• Drive a cycle of virtuous improvement with blame-free postmortems

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