Senior Engineering Manager, Reddit
Content Platform
$232.5-325.5k
This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$232.5-325.5k
This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Having experience managing high-performance software engineering teams is important for success in this role
- Previous experience with distributed systems at web scale (thousands of nodes, hundreds of systems) is a plus
- 5+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams
- 7+ years experience on large scale backend distributed systems
- This experience should include ample time developing and shipping software
- Professional experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design. 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, Cassandra, Redis is a huge plus
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Core Platform organization has the mission of building and delivering common software, frameworks, and constructs for the rest of Reddit. Reddit has a complex production serving environment consisting of AWS, GCP and running several compute clusters (Kubernetes) across both
- Within the Core Platform group, we are looking to hire a seasoned engineering manager to lead our Content Platform team
- Content Platform team is the engineering team responsible for owning Reddit’s Core Data Models for Posts, Comments and Votes
- It is also the team that is currently responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit. In addition, the team is also responsible for building the Gateway to audit and meter the usage of in-house and external LLMs within Reddit
- Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
- Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit growth
- Define best practices and establish them as defaults for developers across the company
- Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in backend service development within the data space
- Lead technically minded peers on your journey
- Our teams are building and maintaining the complex software systems needed to sustain Reddit's rapidly growing user and revenue business demands.
- 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 very closely with Consumer engineering, Ads Engineering, Ranking Platform and other infrastructure teams that appreciate being able to run large-scale software securely, reliably, efficiently, and scalably
- Lead: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals to scale our Platform to meet our rapidly growing business needs
- Build: Hire, onboard, and build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, modern, reliable and open closed APIs. Facilitate sunsetting our legacy stack from critical user flows, and replace them with dedicated platform APIs for each of our code models
- 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.
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
- 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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