Ranking Platform Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefits programs

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in the United States. You will lead a team building scalable ranking and indexing services, partnering with ML and infrastructure teams to translate product needs into a coherent platform strategy and deliver from ideation through production.

You will own team health and growth, set roadmaps, and guide architecture decisions while balancing reliability, latency, and cost to support Reddit’s feeds and discovery experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience building large-scale backend distributed systems.
• Experience in ML infrastructure, recommendation or ranking systems, indexing, or streaming data pipelines.
• Strong technical judgment balancing reliability, latency, scalability, data freshness, and cost.
• Experience defining technical direction and delivering platform initiatives across multiple quarters.

Responsibilities

• Set team direction and roadmap with engineers and partner teams.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Coach engineers and leaders to build a culture of technical excellence and inclusion.
• Deliver multi-quarter platform investments as achievable milestones.
• Drive operational excellence through incident response and observability.
• Collaborate with Feed, Search, Ads, ML Platform, and infra teams.
• Evolve architecture and best practices for scalable ranking systems.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Redis

Postgres

Streaming (Beam or Flink)

BS degree in Computer Science

leadership and people mgmt

Go or Python; Kubernetes, Docker, AWS,

Data systems (Redis, Postgres)

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Milvus

Solr

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ranking Platform in the United States. You will lead a team building scalable ranking and indexing services, partnering with ML and infrastructure teams to translate product needs into a coherent platform strategy and deliver from ideation through production.

You will own team health and growth, set roadmaps, and guide architecture decisions while balancing reliability, latency, and cost to support Reddit’s feeds and discovery experiences.