Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Reddit's Core Platform organization as a seasoned engineering manager to lead the Content Platform team. This team is responsible for Reddit's core data models and maintaining its legacy stack (R2). You will own the design and evolution of core systems, identify gaps in current designs, and lead redesigns to improve developer velocity and Reddit's growth. You will define best practices, be a go-to person for complex problems, and lead technically minded peers. This high-impact role involves close collaboration with various engineering teams and directly impacts Reddit's business. You will lead projects, build and mentor your team, and evolve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams
• 7+ years experience on large scale backend distributed systems
• This experience should include ample time developing and shipping software
• Professional experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
• Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit growth
• Define best practices and establish them as defaults for developers across the company
• Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in backend service development within the data space
• Lead technically minded peers on your journey
• Lead: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals to scale our Platform to meet our rapidly growing business needs
• Build: Hire, onboard, and build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, modern, reliable and open closed APIs. Facilitate sunsetting our legacy stack  from critical user flows, and replace them with dedicated platform APIs for each of our code models
• 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, Cassandra, Redis 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