Reddit's Core Platform organization needs an Engineering Manager to lead their Data Pipeline team to ensure reliability, scalability, and innovation in one of Reddit's most critical data systems, which processes petabytes of data (over 250 billion events per day) used by various teams across the company.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in large scale backend distributed systems
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality.
- Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Flink, Kafka, BigQuery is a huge plus.
- Experience managing high-performing engineering teams
- building distributed systems at web scale
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and long-term evolution of Reddit’s Data Pipeline to support ongoing scale and growth.
- Drive high-impact, high-leverage projects that align with Reddit’s broader engineering and business goals.
- Build and grow a high-performing team, including hiring, mentoring, and creating a culture of technical excellence.
- Establish and champion best practices for data production, consumption, and governance across the company.
- Ensure the pipeline remains highly reliable and low latency, even at massive scale.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams across Reddit—such as Ads, ML, and Consumer—to support their data needs.
- Extend data infrastructure capabilities across multiple data centers and cloud environments.
Other
- 2-4 years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
