Senior Engineering Manager, Content Platform

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned engineering manager to lead its Content Platform team. This pivotal role involves overseeing the design and evolution of Core Systems to support Reddit's rapid growth and ensure high performance in backend service development. You will be at the forefront of driving impactful projects, mentoring a talented team, and collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance the platform's capabilities. If you're passionate about building scalable systems and leading high-performing teams, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience on large scale backend distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of Core Systems for Reddit's growth.
• Mentor team members and drive high leverage projects.

Skills

People Management

Backend Distributed Systems

API Design

Communication Skills

Empathy

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Cassandra

Redis

Job description

Remote - United States

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.

The Core Platform organization has the mission of building and delivering common software, frameworks, and constructs for the rest of Reddit. Reddit has a complex production serving environment consisting of AWS, GCP and running several compute clusters (Kubernetes) across both.

Within the Core Platform group, we are looking to hire a seasoned engineering manager to lead our Content Platform team.

• Content Platform team is the engineering team responsible for owning Reddit’s Core Data Models for Posts, Comments and Votes. It is also the team that is currently responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. In addition, the team is also responsible for building the Gateway to audit and meter the usage of in-house and external LLMs within Reddit.

What you’ll do

• Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit.
• Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit growth.
• Define best practices and establish them as defaults for developers across the company.
• Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in backend service development within the data space.
• Lead technically minded peers on your journey.

Our teams are building and maintaining the complex software systems needed to sustain Reddit's rapidly growing user and revenue business demands. Having experience managing high-performance software engineering teams is important for success in this role. Previous experience with distributed systems at web scale (thousands of nodes, hundreds of systems) is a plus.

This is a high impact role where your positive contributions will be amplified through the Reddit technology stack and lead to direct business impact. You will work very closely with Consumer engineering, Ads Engineering, Ranking Platform and other infrastructure teams that appreciate being able to run large-scale software securely, reliably, efficiently, and scalably.

You will

• Lead: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals to scale our Platform to meet our rapidly growing business needs.
• Build: Hire, onboard, and build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, modern, reliable and open closed APIs. Facilitate sunsetting our legacy stack from critical user flows, and replace them with dedicated platform APIs for each of our code models.
• Amplify: Mentor your ICs and be a leader for the team.
• Collaborate: Work together with a variety of teams across Reddit Engineering.
• Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years experience on large scale backend distributed systems.
• This experience should include ample time developing and shipping software.
• Professional experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
• Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis is a huge plus.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.