Senior Engineering Manager, Notifications

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 232,000 - 326,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Engineering Manager, where you'll lead the Notifications team to innovate and enhance user engagement across various platforms. This role demands a strategic mind, technical expertise, and a passion for mentoring a diverse team of engineers. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine the notifications architecture, ensuring it remains reliable and engaging for millions of users. If you're driven by user-centric solutions and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

401k Matching

Workspace benefits for home office

Family Planning Support

Flexible Vacation

Reddit Global Wellness Days

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Hands-on background with distributed systems and ML pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Notifications pillar, driving strategy and execution.
• Scale the Notifications platform and enhance user engagement.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Machine Learning

Java

Go

Python

Cross-Functional Communication

Team Leadership

User Engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Data Science

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager, Notifications

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 .

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications pillar: driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of features that connect millions of users to the communities and content they care about. As a critical part of the Growth org, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data Science, Design, Infrastructure) to refine and scale our notifications platform, ensuring it remains reliable, relevant, and engaging for users.

The successful candidate will be deeply passionate about solving user-centric and business-critical problems, taking full ownership of outcomes, and driving fast, impactful progress even in ambiguous situations. They’ll thrive on brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration, partnering closely with engineering, product, user acquisition, and leadership stakeholders to deliver solutions that truly move the needle.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical & Strategic Leadership: Establish a clear technical vision and direction and oversee end-to-end development of user-facing notifications and engagement features and platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Scale the Notifications Platform: Define best practices for system architecture, tooling, and processes that enable self-serve notification capabilities for other teams across Reddit.
• Expand Relevance Architecture: Guide team on holistic, adaptive systems covering budgeting optimization, candidate retrieval, and ranking. Work closely with embedded ML engineers to design, implement, and optimize machine-learning models that drive personalization and user re-engagement.
• Unlock Channel Experiences: Advance Reddit to best-in-class engagement surfaces and capabilities, enhancing user interactions across push, email, and in-app channels to drive engagement and retentive feedback loops.
• Manage & Mentor a Diverse Team: Lead a group of engineers (including ML, backend, frontend), focusing on career growth, coaching, and technical excellence.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other engineering leads to define a multi-quarter roadmap, align priorities, and deliver features on time.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, ensuring the right bets are taken with the highest quality.
• Measure Impact & Iterate: Set clear objectives, regularly review metrics, and use data to guide product and platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Proven Engineering Management Experience: 4+ years managing high-performing teams (including ML, Mobile, Frontend and Backend specialists); 9+ years of overall engineering experience.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on background with distributed systems, large-scale backend services, and/or machine-learning pipelines. Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python).
• Strong Cross-Functional Communication and Collaboration: Comfortable working with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders—turning strategic objectives into technical roadmaps.
• Track Record of Delivery: Experience delivering user-facing product features at scale, with an emphasis on reliability, quality, and iterative improvements.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Demonstrated success in hiring, coaching, and retaining diverse engineering talent; ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive environment.
• User-Centric Mindset: Passion for improving user engagement, understanding pain points, and implementing data-driven solutions.
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$232,500 - $325,500 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [e-mail] .

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