Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform & Data Pipelines

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in the United States to lead a team delivering robust ranking coordination services, ML indexes, and data pipelines that power feeds and discovery.

You will guide architecture, ensure reliability, latency, and cost targets, and collaborate with product, ML, and infrastructure partners to evolve system design across quarters.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams.
• 7+ years building large-scale backend distributed systems.
• Experience in ML infrastructure, ranking or recommender systems.
• Ability to balance reliability, latency, and cost with tradeoffs.
• Proven track record delivering platform initiatives across teams.
• Experience with deployment automation, monitoring and incident management.
• Strong verbal and written communication; able to align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set team direction and roadmap with engineers and partners.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Coach and empower engineers, manage ownership and performance.
• Deliver milestones from multi-quarter platform investments.
• Drive operational excellence, observability, and reliable rollouts.
• Collaborate with Feed, Search, Ads, ML Platform, and infra teams.
• Evolve architecture and practices for scalable ranking systems.

Skills

People management

Backend systems

ML infrastructure

Technical judgment

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Go or Python

Education

BS in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS or GCP

Redis

Postgres

Memcached

Solr

Milvus

Apache Beam or Flink

Job description

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in the United States to lead a team delivering robust ranking coordination services, ML indexes, and data pipelines that power feeds and discovery.

You will guide architecture, ensure reliability, latency, and cost targets, and collaborate with product, ML, and infrastructure partners to evolve system design across quarters.