Remote Engineering Manager — Notifications Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit’s Notifications Platform team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a group of engineers building scalable, reliable platform capabilities powering in-app, email, and push notifications across Reddit.

You will set technical direction, drive architecture, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver high-quality notification experiences while growing a diverse, high-performing team in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years as Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs; notification/messaging experience a plus.
• Hands-on 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 autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations.
• Set technical direction for platform capabilities across APIs, eventing, orchestration, delivery pipelines, and templates.
• Collaborate with adjacent ML teams to productionize ML-powered notification systems.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define platform contracts and improve developer experience.
• Drive full development lifecycle: design, test, deploy, operate, and improve services.
• Establish reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence practices.
• Build and maintain a diverse, capable team across disciplines.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

APIs

Observability tooling

Job description

Reddit’s Notifications Platform team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a group of engineers building scalable, reliable platform capabilities powering in-app, email, and push notifications across Reddit.

You will set technical direction, drive architecture, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver high-quality notification experiences while growing a diverse, high-performing team in a fast-paced environment.