Engineering Manager, Reddit
Site Reliability
$217-303.9k
+ equity (RSUs)
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217-303.9k
+ equity (RSUs)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 2-4 years experience in leading and developing high-performing site reliability or infrastructure engineering teams, including setting clear goals, tracking metrics, and supporting career growth and coaching distributed, remote teams to high performance
- 7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment systems. Experience with Go, Kubernetes, Argo, and Flux is a plus
- Strong technical judgment and ability to evaluate the quality of engineering decisions related to cloud infrastructure systems (Kubernetes, AWS, GCE). Accountability for the team's technical output and operational decisions
- Experience designing, deploying, building or managing distributed systems of significant scale
- Track record of assembling a high functioning team
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability, you will be responsible for ensuring the Reliability, Performance, Efficiency and Resilience of your team's systems and services, as well as working to ensure that the experience of your customers – other internal engineering teams – steadily improves
- This includes implementing and maintaining monitoring systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address performance bottlenecks and continuously improving the reliability and scalability of our systems to meet the evolving needs of our users
- You will find and apply leverage to improve the reliability of all internal services at Reddit, including the ability of SREs and other engineering teams supporting production services to do incident response well
- Reporting into the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, your peers will be the other Engineering Managers in SRE and Infrastructure
- Your customers will be the other engineering teams at Reddit, who build on our standard infrastructure
- You will partner with stakeholders to understand your team's service priorities and contribute to the design, development, and adoption of reliable and performant services within your area
- You will be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a team of engineers to help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone
- Set clear goals for your team, defining success metrics, and track progress towards achieving those goals and contribute to the overall Site Reliability Engineering strategy
- Support multiple Reddit product teams with expertise in cloud compute infrastructure (Kubernetes, etc.) to optimize availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Ensure our infrastructure can scale to a large multiple of what it is today.
- Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions
- Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Reddit’s SRE priorities across all of our products
- Support the reliable operation of these systems as a Platform for Reddit products, and allow us to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users
- Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internal supported options (Golang, Redis, etc)
- Support the full talent lifecycle for your team, including hiring, culture-building, growth, and performance management. Coach and develop your direct reports, providing career development plans and fostering a growth-oriented team environment.
- Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles
- Set and support a culture of metrics driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency
- Drive a cycle of virtuous improvement with blame-free postmortems
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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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
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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