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About the Role
Reddit is a community of communities. 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.
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.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
- check_circle Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
- check_circle Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
- check_circle Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
- check_circle Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
- check_circle Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
- check_circle Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
- check_circle Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
- check_circle Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
- check_circle Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
- check 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
- check 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.
- check Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
- check Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
- check Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
- check Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
- check Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- check Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.
About Reddit Greenhouse Board
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Reddit Greenhouse Board serves as the hiring entity and recruitment portal for Reddit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Reddit is a prominent social media and technology platform that hosts a vast network of online communities where users can share content, news, and discussions on a wide variety of topics.