Lead, Remote Notifications Platform Engineering

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Notifications Platform to lead a team building durable, scalable platform services that power push, email, and in-app notifications. You will define the technical direction, own platform contracts, and partner with product and ML teams to deliver reliable experiences at scale.

You will drive design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of highly available services while promoting operational excellence, privacy, and security across the

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years as Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, SOA, event-driven systems, and APIs.
• Hands-on with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform.
• Set technical direction for platform capabilities across APIs, eventing, workflows, and observability.
• Collaborate with ML teams to productionize ML-powered notification systems.
• Partner with product and engineering to define platform contracts and improve developer experience.
• Drive the full development lifecycle for highly available services.
• Establish reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, and security practices.
• Build a diverse team and guide career development for engineers.
• Communicate plans and progress to cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

APIs

Observability

Communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Job description

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Notifications Platform to lead a team building durable, scalable platform services that power push, email, and in-app notifications. You will define the technical direction, own platform contracts, and partner with product and ML teams to deliver reliable experiences at scale.

You will drive design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of highly available services while promoting operational excellence, privacy, and security across the