Senior Engineering Manager, Reddit
Compute
$232.5-325.5k
Bonus and Share options
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232.5-325.5k
Bonus and Share options
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams
- 7+ years experience on infrastructure or deployment systems
- This experience should include ample time developing and shipping software
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality. 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, Argo, Flux, and other CNCF landscape projects is a huge plus
What the job involves
- Within Infrastructure foundations, we are looking to expand our engineering management in 2 specific domains and thus are interested in candidates with experience in either or both of the following areas
- Deployment Platform / Infrastructure:
- A software engineering team that is responsible for building the systems Reddit uses to deploy our software across the globe.
- This team is building APIs, services, and managing the underlying infrastructure for these systems
- This team works closely with our compute platforms to ensure we can reliably deploy and scale Reddit
- Compute Platform / Infrastructure:
- Part software engineering (SWE) and part site reliability engineering (SRE) this group’s responsibility spans from the Linux kernel up to our Kubernetes autoscalers and multi-cluster orchestration/federation
- Reddit runs on this platform and thus it must balance developer experience, reliability, and safety in supporting one of the world’s largest websites
- Our teams are building and maintaining the complex software needed to rapidly grow and sustain Reddit's production environment
- Having experience managing high-performance software engineering teams is important for success in this role
- 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 closely with other infrastructure teams, Developer Experience, Observability, Compute, Transport and dozens of product teams, such as the ML infra team, that appreciate being able to run large-scale software securely, reliably, efficiently, and scalably
- Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals
- Build: Build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, more reliable Storage systems and Caching infrastructures
- 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
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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