Engineering Manager, Site Reliability New New York City, NY

Reddit, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit, a leading platform for community engagement, is seeking an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability. This role focuses on enhancing system performance and reliability while mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You'll collaborate across product teams to drive the reliability of internal services, ensuring a positive user experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Global Days Off

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience leading site reliability or infrastructure teams.
• Experience in developing internet-scale software, especially with cloud deployments.
• Strong organizational and technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Set clear goals and track team success metrics.
• Support Reddit products with cloud infrastructure expertise.
• Coach and develop team members for high performance.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Technical judgment

Organizational Skills

Education

BS degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Golang

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com .

As an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability, you will be responsible for ensuring the Reliability, Performance, Efficiency and Resilience of your team's systems and services, as well as working to ensure that the experience of your customers – other internal engineering teams – steadily improves. This includes implementing and maintaining monitoring systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address performance bottlenecks and continuously improving the reliability and scalability of our systems to meet the evolving needs of our users. You will find and apply leverage to improve the reliability of all internal services at Reddit, including the ability of SREs and other engineering teams supporting production services to do incident response well.

How You’ll have impact:

Reporting into the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, your peers will be the other Engineering Managers in SRE and Infrastructure. Your customers will be the other engineering teams at Reddit, who build on our standard infrastructure. You will partner with stakeholders to understand your team's service priorities and contribute to the design, development, and adoption of reliable and performant services within your area.

You will be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a team of engineers to help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone.

What You’ll Do

• Set clear goals for your team, defining success metrics, and track progress towards achieving those goals and contribute to the overall Site Reliability Engineering strategy.
• Support multiple Reddit product teams with expertise in cloud compute infrastructure (Kubernetes, etc.) to optimize availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Ensure our infrastructure can scale to a large multiple of what it is today..
• Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions.
• Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Reddit’s SRE priorities across all of our products.
• Support the reliable operation of these systems as a Platform for Reddit products, and allow us to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users.
• Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internal supported options (Golang, Redis, etc)
• Support the full talent lifecycle for your team, including hiring, culture-building, growth, and performance management. Coach and develop your direct reports, providing career development plans and fostering a growth-oriented team environment..
• Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles.
• Set and support a culture of metrics driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
• Drive a cycle of virtuous improvement with blame-free postmortems.

What We Look For

• 2-4 years experience in leading and developing high-performing site reliability or infrastructure engineering teams, including setting clear goals, tracking metrics, and supporting career growth and coaching distributed, remote teams to high performance.
• 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment systems. Experience with Go, Kubernetes, Argo, and Flux is a plus.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to evaluate the quality of engineering decisions related to cloud infrastructure systems (Kubernetes, AWS, GCE). Accountability for the team's technical output and operational decisions.
• Experience designing, deploying, building or managing distributed systems of significant scale.
• Track record of assembling a high functioning team.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Paid Volunteer time off

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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 pay 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 pay range for this position is:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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