Engineering Manager, Safety

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Job summary

Reddit is hiring an Engineering Manager to own the Safety Experience Team, building scalable AI-powered safety tooling for moderators and admins. You will lead a 13-engineer group, own AI training pipelines, and drive automated defenses at scale.

You’ll partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Operations to enable a fast, secure platform that grows with the site while protecting communities globally.

Qualifications

• Experience scaling engineering teams (10+ ICs) and aligning with product goals.
• Strong background in full-stack or backend architectures and distributed systems.
• Ability to define roadmaps, deliver results, and balance customer needs with business priorities.
• Mentor teams, provide regular feedback, and cultivate a healthy culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact team of engineers delivering AI-driven safety tooling.
• Own moderator tools and admin platform for AI model training and moderation workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define a scalable AI-first platform strategy.
• Drive incident response improvements and scale with performance and security in mind.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack engineering

Distributed systems

Roadmap planning

Coaching & feedback

AI/ML familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, www.redditinc.com.

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

At Reddit, we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day as we pursue our vision to create a welcoming experience where anyone in the world feels a sense of belonging. We’re looking for a high-autonomy Engineering Manager to own the strategy, development, and scaling of Reddit’s Safety Experience Team. In this role, you will lead a high-impact engineering team dedicated to protecting our users and moderators from bad actors and malicious behavior.

You will have full ownership over building the next generation of scalable safety tooling and automated defense systems that empower our global moderator community and equip our internal admin teams to safeguard the platform at scale. If you are an ambitious leader who thrives in ambiguous spaces, loves giving engineers a high degree of autonomy, and is excited by the massive leverage of securing one of the most popular websites in the world using AI, then you’ve found the right place.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact team of 13 engineers enabling automated AI training and human-in-the-loop workflows at the core of Reddit’s safety strategy
• Own the user-facing tools used by moderators to define and automatically enforce the rules in their communities
• Own the centralized platform used by admins to train AI models for content and behavior detection at scale, process reports and appeals, and investigate suspicious users and activity
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, ML, and Operations to define and execute an AI-first platform strategy capable of supporting a 10x surge in scale while slashing incident response from days to seconds

Required Qualifications

• Track record of directly managing and scaling larger engineering teams (10+ ICs) across full-stack and backend systems architectures
• Deep technical competence in full-stack engineering or architecture, with solid experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Able to set a roadmap for a team and its members, and deliver results with a strong customer and business focus.
• Desire to coach a team, regularly gathering and providing feedback to your team and fostering a healthy team culture.
• Customer focused and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Familiarity with or strong interest in AI/ML engineering practices, specifically around serving, prompt engineering, or productionizing LLM/classical workflows at scale.

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