Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform (Fully Remote)

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k with employer match

Global benefits

Flexible vacation

Volunteer time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an engineering leader to set direction for feeds, ranking, and discovery. You will lead a team tasked with building robust, scalable ranking services and data pipelines in production.

Collaborate with ML engineers and platform teams to productionize models, drive reliability, and foster an inclusive, technically excellent culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams.
• 7+ years building large-scale backend distributed systems with production software experience.
• Experience with ML infrastructure, recommendation/ranking systems, or streaming/batch data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Set team direction and roadmap, delivering high-impact initiatives for feeds and discovery.
• Hire, develop, and manage a high-performing engineering team with clear expectations and feedback.
• Drive operational excellence through incident response, observability, and proactive system hardening.

Skills

People management

Backend distributed systems

ML infrastructure

Recommendation/ranking systems

Job description

• Build and run services for contextualized and personalized ranking on Reddit.
• Partner with ML engineers and ML Platform teams to develop and productionize models.
• Ensure robust, scalable, and performant ranking coordination services, feature indexes, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Set team direction and roadmap, delivering high-impact initiatives for feeds and discovery.
• Hire, develop, and manage a high-performing engineering team with clear expectations and feedback.
• Drive operational excellence through incident response, observability, and proactive system hardening.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years building large-scale backend distributed systems with production software experience.
• Experience with ML infrastructure, recommendation/ranking systems, or streaming/batch data pipelines.

Culture and Benefits:

• Comprehensive healthcare, 401k with employer match, and global benefit programs.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Focus on intention over attention, fostering openness, kindness, and technical excellence.

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests and authentic conversations. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, the company fosters an open and inclusive culture.