Engineering Manager, Knowledge Graph Platform
Remote - United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers building Reddit's Knowledge Graph Platform
- create a high-trust, high-performing environment with clear goals and strong technical ownership.
- Partner with engineering, computational linguists, and domain-expert teams to define a shared operating model for ontology, data quality, governance, and platform evolution.
- Drive the next wave of graph-powered capabilities, including opportunities in shopping, search, ads marketplace models, consumer feed models.
- Stay close to architecture and technical design, helping the team navigate complex system tradeoffs and contribute hands-on when it is the highest-leverage path.
- 8+ years of total software engineering experience, with 2+ years directly managing, coaching, and developing engineering teams.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers building Reddit's Knowledge Graph Platform; create a high-trust, high-performing environment with clear goals and strong technical ownership.
- Excellent collaborator and communicator who can earn trust with engineers, senior leaders, and partner teams across time zones.
- Enjoy building clarity and durable operating mechanisms where ownership and processes are still evolving. Excel in evangelization and driving platform adoption cross org.
- The Knowledge Graph Platform team builds the foundational systems that help Reddit understand entities, relationships, and context across its content.
Requirements
- Experience with knowledge graphs, semantic or ontology systems, entity resolution, search, or contextual grounding is highly desired.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Nice to have
- Master's or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
- Candidates based in ET timezone will be given preference to accommodate team schedules.
- Generous 401k matching
- Pay Transparency:
- This job posting may span more than one career level.
Compensation
- 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.
- To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity options
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) & workplace perks (home office set up stipend etc)
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave (4+ months)
- Paid volunteer time off
- 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.
- Be a steward of data in the KG - ensure the graph has the coverage and freshness needed for priority use cases.
- Work with our dedicated data labeler team on shared goals around data coverage and quality.
Company info
- The Knowledge Graph Platform team builds the foundational systems that help Reddit understand entities, relationships, and context across its content. We are evolving an advanced, AI-powered knowledge graph into a reliable, scalable platform that enables teams across Reddit to build better experiences on top of shared, high-quality knowledge.
- This is a high-leverage team at the intersection of data, platform engineering, and AI. Our work supports emerging capabilities such as contextual grounding while creating the contracts, standards, and developer experience that make shared data dependable and easy to use. This team is strategically positioned to impact both ads and consumer roadmaps. Our data is used across ads marketplace models as well as user-facing features on reddit.com.
- We are evolving an advanced, AI-powered knowledge graph into a reliable, scalable platform that enables teams across Reddit to build better experiences on top of shared, high-quality knowledge.
- This is a high-leverage team at the intersection of data, platform engineering, and AI.
- Our work supports emerging capabilities such as contextual grounding while creating the contracts, standards, and developer experience that make shared data dependable and easy to use.
- This team is strategically positioned to impact both ads and consumer roadmaps.
- Our data is used across ads marketplace models as well as user-facing features on reddit.com.
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for a scalable knowledge graph platform, including data and API contracts, service interfaces, reliability, observability, performance, and developer experience.
- Leverage SOTA LLM and agentic patterns for knowledge graph construction.
- Establish production-grade operating standards: defining SLOs, implementing quality measures of data within the knowledge graph, governance mechanisms, and safe change-management practices.
- Be a steward of data in the KG - ensure the graph has the coverage and freshness needed for priority use cases. Work with our dedicated data labeler team on shared goals around data coverage and quality.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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