Senior Engineering Manager Content Platform
Senior Engineering Manager Content Platform
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$ 232500 - 325500
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Job Description
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 Reddits Core Data Models for Posts Comments and Votes. It is also the team that is currently responsible for running and maintaining R2 Reddits 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 inhouse and external LLMs within Reddit.
What youll do
- 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 goto 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 Reddits rapidly growing user and revenue business demands. Having experience managing highperformance 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.
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 largescale software securely reliably efficiently and scalably.
You will
- Lead: Work with the team to select scope and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddits 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 nontechnical abilities.
What were looking for
- 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.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- GenderAffirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units and depending on the position offered it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to employees including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) program with employer match generous time off for vacation and parental leave. To learn more please visit provide greater transparency to candidates we share base pay ranges for all USbased job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function level and country location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$232500 $325500 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at .
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
