Reddit, Inc. is a community-driven platform that fosters open conversations. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead teams focused on building AI-assisted engineering workflows, partnering with various engineering leaders to enhance developer productivity and software development processes.

Responsibilities:

Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams focused on AI-native developer productivity, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders to translate strategy into scalable platforms and engineering roadmaps across code review, agent infrastructure, self-service LLM access, evaluation and observability systems, development environments, and safe agent workflows across the software development lifecycle
Define and evolve the operating model for AI-native software development, including paved paths, platform adoption strategies, governance models, and engineering standards that enable safe and effective experimentation at scale
Drive alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders. You will influence across organizations and create clarity across teams with different priorities and incentives
Build engineering systems and organizational processes that help teams move from experimentation to durable adoption of AI-assisted workflows while maintaining quality, reliability, and operational safety
Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey, including technical strategy reviews, working groups, training, documentation, rollout plans, and clear narratives that connect workflow change to business and engineering outcomes
Build and operationalize measurement systems that distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics. Partner with engineering and data teams to define metrics such as design-to-test time, test-to-launch time, review turnaround, change failure rate, time to restore service, AI-authored code quality, AI-assisted pull request load, migration throughput, and developer satisfaction
Drive AI governance and platform adoption in a way that preserves engineering creativity while ensuring security, cost management, privacy, compliance, and operational safety are built into the development lifecycle
Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, guide architectural tradeoffs, and help teams make pragmatic decisions across AI tooling, CI/CD, code review, deploy automation, developer environments, and production reliability
Partner with senior engineering leadership on organizational planning, technical investment strategy, hiring, career development, and long-term platform evolution

Requirements:

14+ years of experience across software engineering, engineering management, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains, including experience leading engineering teams
Managed high-performing engineering teams delivering large-scale technical platforms or infrastructure with executive visibility and cross-functional dependencies
Deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows
Understand AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity
Highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics
Exceptional cross-functional leader and communicator
Led meaningful organizational change, not just technical delivery
Care deeply about engineering quality, operational excellence, and developer experience
Get things done
Pragmatic and iterative
Experience leading developer productivity, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, or AI tooling teams at large scale
Experience with LLM platforms, AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or AI governance in an enterprise engineering environment
Experience building internal platforms or developer tools where success depends on trust, usability, reliability, and measurable value
Experience leading organizational transformation, platform adoption, or engineering workflow modernization initiatives across large engineering organizations
Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or similar multi-dimensional measurement approaches
Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms are evolving at the same time

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