Engineering Manager, Search Storage

Reddit is a community of communities and is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. The role of Engineering Manager, Search Storage involves leading a team to build efficient and reliable storage systems while managing the full lifecycle of systems and collaborating with various teams across Reddit Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus
• Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes
• Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org