Senior Engineering Manager, Content Platform
Job Summary
This role involves leading the Content Platform engineering team at Reddit, responsible for core data models and critical legacy systems. The candidate will oversee system design, guide platform evolution for scalability, and improve developer velocity through best practices and API modernization. Extensive experience in managing high-performing engineering teams and large-scale distributed systems is required. The role offers a focus on built-in scalability, cross-team collaboration, and impactful contributions to Reddit's infrastructure growth.
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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 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.
What you’ll 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 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. 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.
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.
You will
- 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.
What we’re 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
- 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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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 U.S.-based 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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based 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.
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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
A social media platform where users create and participate in communities (subreddits) to discuss a wide range of topics, share content, and connect.
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