Engineering Manager, Reddit

• 8+ years of industry experience as a SWE
• 3+ years managing (including coaching, mentoring, developing) engineering teams
• 2+ years in the capacity of tech lead in charge of systems & architecture design
• Experience with at least two general programming languages such as Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++
• Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Message Queuing Services (Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service)
• Data Processing Frameworks (Apache Spark, Apache Flink)
• Key Value Stores (Redis, DynamoDB, Memcached, Riak)
• Document based DBs (MongoDB, Cassandra)
• ML Ops ((ML | Tensor | Kube)flow)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work effectively with product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders

Desirable

• The Ads Foundations org is the ensemble of the platform teams powering Ads Engineering, Product, ML Systems, and Experimentation efforts
• At the core of them all it’s the Ads Infrastructure team composed of the key senior engineers gluing it all together; as of 2024, the team responsibilities include the following charters:
• Tech Evolution of the Reddit & Ads stack - Bring the Ads tech stacks into the future leveraging the Consumer side centralized resources (Cloud/People/Know-how) and looking beyond based on Ads unique challenges where scale, performance, and characteristics involve two very different kind of customers, Redditors and Advertisers
• Engineering velocity & happiness - Unlock the shortest path, without compromising on quality, to build from proof of concepts to fully productionized systems
• Cloud resources & Data observability - Standardize and apply best practices among all the vertical teams to be able to understand Cloud and Business impact for any given product launch
• Cost of Revenue Tracking and Optimizations - Design, implement, and drive best practices for all development teams to ship cost efficient systems that can survive the test of time
• The Ads Infrastructure team acts as the gate to validate the engineering excellence of a given system going live for millions of customers
• Coach, Motivate, Build, Hire, and Lead a world-class team of passionate Infrastructure engineers with a knack for high scale/high performance Ads delivery systems
• We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager with industry-relevant platform or infrastructure expertise to lead the Ads Infrastructure team with engineers spread across US East & West coast
• Lead, coordinate, and execute a coherent vision for a ruthlessly prioritized infrastructure roadmap based on business needs
• Set and support a culture of data-informed decision making, with efficient processes and strong transparency
• Facilitate the collaboration between the different product/vertical teams making use of Ads Infrastructure and the partner and core platform teams across Reddit
• Participating in design and coding reviews: You will review work by your team members and provide feedback to ensure that it meets the team's standards for quality, performance and best practices
• Collaborating with cross-functional team leads (EMs, PMs, DSs) to understand business requirements and translate them into technical directions for the Ads Infrastructure roadmap in conjunction with the rest of the Ads Foundations teams