Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Location: Remote - United States

Base salary: $217,000–$303,000 USD per year, plus potential equity and commission depending on the position offered.

Company

Reddit is a community platform with more than 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

What you will do

• Lead the team responsible for Reddit’s Notifications Platform and its durable infrastructure and services.
• Set technical direction for notification APIs, eventing, workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
• Collaborate with Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable safe launches.
• Drive the full lifecycle of highly available services, including design, development, testing, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Build a diverse engineering team, support career development, and communicate plans with product, engineering, and upper-management stakeholders.

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.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and production APIs.
• Experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Strong communication skills, technical leadership, self-direction, and ability to solve ambiguous problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefits covering workspace, professional development, caregiving, family planning, gender-affirming care, and mental health support.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Interview recording, transcription, and AI summarization may apply for select roles, with an option to opt out before scheduled interviews.