Reddit is a community of communities, home to open and authentic conversations on the internet. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Data Pipeline team, responsible for managing the infrastructure that processes petabytes of data used across various teams at Reddit.
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
- Continuously develop your own technical and leadership skills while helping others grow
Requirements:
- 2-4 years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams
- 7+ years experience in large scale backend distributed systems
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical data infra systems work at scale
- 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
- Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Flink, Kafka, BigQuery is a huge plus