Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Global Benefit programs

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Notifications Platform team. You will lead engineers building reliable, scalable platform services powering push, email, and in-app notifications across Reddit. Drive technical direction for APIs, eventing, and observability while partnering with ML teams to productionize notification systems.

You’ll guide architecture, delivery, and operations across a high-impact area, balancing speed with reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming/messaging, and observability tooling.
• Able to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed and results oriented in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations.
• Set technical direction for platform capabilities like APIs, eventing, orchestration, and observability.
• Collaborate with ML teams to productionize ML-powered notification systems.
• Partner with product and engineering to define contracts and improve developer experience.
• Drive the full development lifecycle from design to deployment and operation.
• Establish reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain a diverse team across disciplines.
• Align team plans with company goals and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Support engineers' career development and goal setting.

Skills

Team management

Distributed systems

Communication

Strategic leadership

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Cloud platforms

Observability tooling

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit's push, email, and in-app notifications. We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit. This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about.

If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
• Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
• Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
• Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
• Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

You Have:

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching BenefitsFlexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,000 USD

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