Engineering Manager, Search Storage

What You’ll Do

• 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.

You Have

• 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 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. 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.