Engineering Manager, Site Defense
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Reddit, Inc.Software Engineering
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeManager
Salary$217,000 — $303,900 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years of people-management; 5+ years of internet-scale infrastructure experience
- Required Skills
- KubernetesgRPCDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 3+ years of people-management experience for software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security/abuse-defense engineering teams.
- 5+ years of experience building or operating internet-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Technical judgment in Kubernetes, Envoy, Contour, xDS, gRPC, CDNs, DNS, and load balancing.
- Experience managing operationally critical services including on-call, incident response, and SLOs.
- Proven ability to lead large migrations or platform adoption efforts across teams.
- Ability to partner with senior/staff engineers and translate between technical detail and business risk.
- Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience with edge security, bot defense, DDoS mitigation, WAF, or traffic reputation is a plus.
- Experience with ML-enabled platform systems or online scoring is a plus.
- Hands-on software engineering experience in Go, Rust, Python, Java, or C++ is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a high-caliber team of infrastructure engineers across Transport and Site Defense.
- Partner with senior ICs to define technical strategy for global traffic, edge/CDN, service discovery, gRPC datapath, rate limiting, and site defense.
- Drive multi-quarter execution on high-risk platform migrations, including CDN migration, inter-cluster load balancer adoption, and Thrift to gRPC migration.
- Build and maintain a healthy operational model for critical infrastructure, including on-call quality, SLOs, dashboards, and incident response.
- Collaborate deeply with partner teams across Consumer, Ads, Media, Platform, Graph QL, and Site Experience SRE.
- Coach engineers through technical design, stakeholder alignment, project planning, and career growth.
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