Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform

Reddit, Inc.

. Set the team’s direction and roadmap with senior engineers and partner teams .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $230,000 - $322,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading high-performing engineering teams, focusing on people management, technical direction, and operational excellence in large-scale backend distributed systems. Proficient in guiding architectural improvements and implementing best practices for ML infrastructure and data pipelines.

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People Management ExperienceLarge-Scale Backend Systems DevelopmentML Infrastructure LeadershipDeployment Automation and Reliability EngineeringTechnical Judgment in Platform Services

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Hard Skills

Backend DevelopmentProduction Software DeliveryTechnical Direction DefinitionIncident ManagementReliability Engineering

Soft Skills

High EmpathyOrganizational SkillsCommunication SkillsConsensus BuildingLeadership in Distributed Environments

Tools & Technologies

GoPythonKubernetesDockerAWSGCPRedisPostgresMemcachedApache Beam

Certifications & Qualifications

BS Degree in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

ML IndexesRanking SystemsData PipelinesOperational ExcellenceScalable Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgresPythonRedisGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the team’s direction and roadmap with senior engineers and partner teams
Select, scope, and deliver initiatives involving ranking coordination services, ML indexes, and data pipelines
Hire, onboard, develop, coach, and manage performance for engineering team members
Maintain feedback loops with engineers using the platform and guide investment based on feedback and adoption
Delegate ownership and build a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and knowledge sharing
Remove blockers, protect focus time, and keep processes lightweight
Turn multi-quarter platform investments into achievable milestones
Manage dependencies and risks, communicate tradeoffs and progress, and adapt priorities
Drive operational excellence through incident response, blameless postmortems, observability, safe rollouts, and system hardening
Establish reliability and performance goals and plan for on-call work
Partner with Feed, Search, Ads, ML Platform, and infrastructure teams
Guide architectural improvements and engineering best practices for efficient, maintainable, scalable ranking systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Equity in the form of restricted stock units
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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