Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications Platform team. This role involves shaping the systems that power Reddit's notification infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have experience in distributed systems and platform engineering, with a focus on notification services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
• Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing, workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
• Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
• Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
• Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Salary

• Base salary range: $217,000 – $303,000 USD

How to Apply Visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/