Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

As an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability you will be responsible for ensuring the Reliability Performance Efficiency and Resilience of your teams 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.

How Youll have impact:

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 teams 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.

What Youll Do

• 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 Reddits 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.

What We Look For

• 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 teams 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.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

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