Remote Engineering Manager – Notifications Platform

Writing; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 217,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefits

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health benefits

Flexible vacation

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications Platform team. You will build and operate scalable infrastructure, APIs, eventing, and observability that power push, email, and in-app notifications across Reddit.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, partner with product and ML teams, and ensure reliability and security while enabling rapid product velocity. This remote role offers competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package for

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
• Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
• Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
• Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
• Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

APIs & eventing

Cloud infrastructure

Observability tooling

Job description

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications Platform team. You will build and operate scalable infrastructure, APIs, eventing, and observability that power push, email, and in-app notifications across Reddit.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, partner with product and ML teams, and ensure reliability and security while enabling rapid product velocity. This remote role offers competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package for