Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Reddit, Inc. - United States

Hiring: Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform Company: Reddit, Inc. Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:05:23 Target Skills & Keywords : Event-Driven, Make, Rust About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!