Engineering Manager, Reddit
Notifications Platform
$217-303k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$217-303k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus
- Hands-on experience 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 team autonomy
- Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments
- Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems
What the job involves
- The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit's push, email, and in-app notifications. We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit
- This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about
- If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you’ve found the right place
- Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit
- Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability
- Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need
- Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently
- Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services
- Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform
- Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges
- Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals
- Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders
- Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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