Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform
Remote - United States · Mid · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$217k-$303kDetected 8 days ago
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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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 the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
- Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
- 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.
- 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.
- Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
- Family Planning Support
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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
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
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- 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.
Company info
- Reddit is a community of communities.
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
- The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit's push, email, and in-app notifications.
- We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale.
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit.
- In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit.
- This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about.
- If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you've found the right place.
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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- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.