Engineering Manager, Search Storage

at Reddit

📍 United States

USD 217,000-303,000 per year

MIDDLE SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
Build: Build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, more reliable Storage systems.
Amplify: Mentor your ICs and be a leader for the team.
Collaborate: Work together with a variety of teams across Reddit Engineering.
Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
7+ years experience on backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems.
- 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments is key.
- Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes.
Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.

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