Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform

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Reddit, Inc.Machine learning infrastructure
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeManager
Salary$230,000 — $322,000 USD
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years of people management experience; 7+ years of experience building large-scale backend distributed systems.
Required Skills
People ManagementRESTful APIs

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management.
  • Have 7+ years of experience building large-scale backend distributed systems, including substantial experience developing and shipping production software.
  • Have experience leading teams or major initiatives in ML infrastructure, recommendation or ranking systems, indexing, or streaming and batch data pipelines.
  • Demonstrate technical judgment in high-throughput platform services and APIs, balancing reliability, latency, scalability, data freshness, and cost.
  • Have a track record of defining technical direction and delivering platform initiatives across multiple quarters and teams.
  • Have experience improving production operations through deployment automation, monitoring, system diagnosis, incident management, and reliability engineering.
  • Have organizational and communication skills and the ability to build consensus across engineering and product teams.
  • Have a BS in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with Go or Python, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS or GCP, Redis, Postgres, Memcached, Solr, Milvus, Apache Beam, or Flink is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Set the team’s direction and roadmap with senior engineers and partner teams.
  • Select, scope, and deliver initiatives for ranking coordination services, ML indexes, and data pipelines.
  • Hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and manage performance.
  • Manage multi-quarter platform investments, milestones, dependencies, risks, and priorities.
  • Drive incident response, blameless postmortems, observability, safe rollouts, and proactive system hardening.
  • Establish reliability and performance goals and plan for on-call work and operational requests.
  • Partner with Feed, Search, Ads, ML Platform, and infrastructure teams to align roadmaps and adoption.
  • Guide architectural improvements and engineering practices to improve efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
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