Engineering Manager (Notifications Platform)

• 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
• 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 and 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, 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
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems
• Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling
• Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices
• 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