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full-timeEngineering Manager, Notifications Platform
Reddit · Remote - United States
Reddit operates a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users join communities around shared interests, submit content, vote, and comment. The Notifications Platform team builds the infrastructure that delivers push, email, and in‑app notifications across the site, providing APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations. As an Engineering Manager for this team, you would lead a group of software engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable notification services. Day‑to‑day work includes setting technical direction for platform capabilities, collaborating with product and ML‑focused notification teams, defining clear contracts, improving developer experience, and driving the full development lifecycle from design through deployment and operations. You would also focus on reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and aligning team goals with company objectives. The role suits candidates with several years of experience managing engineering teams and a strong background in large‑scale distributed systems, platform services, and cloud‑native infrastructure.
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit's push, email, and in-app notifications. We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit. This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about. If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you’ve found the right place. What You’ll Do Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit. Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability. Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need. Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently. Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services. Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform. Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges. Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals. Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders. Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You Have: 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams. 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services. Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus. Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices. Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling. Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy. Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments. Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences. Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems. Benefits: 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 Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard
| Role | Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform |
|---|---|
| Company | |
| Location | Remote - United States |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-01 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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