Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform and Data Pipelines

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Mental health support

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in San Francisco. You will lead a team building a robust, scalable ranking and indexing platform, partnering with ML leaders and backend architects to translate product needs into strategy.

You will drive team health, growth, and operational excellence, guiding architecture, investments, and reliability while balancing latency and costs. Collaborate with multiple product teams to evolve the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience building large-scale backend distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams or major initiatives in ML infrastructure, recommendation or ranking systems.
• Strong technical judgment in high-throughput platform services and APIs.
• Track record of defining technical direction and delivering platform initiatives.
• Experience improving production operations through deployment automation and reliability engineering.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead in a distributed environment.
• Experience with Go or Python; Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, or GCP; Redis/Postgres/Memcached; and streaming frameworks is a plus.
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team’s direction and roadmap with senior engineers and partner teams.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing engineering team and provide growth opportunities.
• Coach engineers, delegate ownership, and foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
• Turn platform investments into achievable milestones and manage dependencies.
• Drive operational excellence through incident response, observability, and safe rollouts.
• Collaborate with Feed, Search, Ads, ML Platform, and infrastructure teams to align roadmaps.
• Guide architectural improvements and encourage experimentation while maintaining production readiness.

Skills

People management

Backend systems

ML infra / ranking systems

Go

Python

Kubernetes

AWS / GCP

Redis

PostgreSQL

Education

BS degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in San Francisco. You will lead a team building a robust, scalable ranking and indexing platform, partnering with ML leaders and backend architects to translate product needs into strategy.

You will drive team health, growth, and operational excellence, guiding architecture, investments, and reliability while balancing latency and costs. Collaborate with multiple product teams to evolve the platform.