Engineering Manager, Reddit
Distributed Caching
$206.7-289.4k
Plus equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$206.7-289.4k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams
- 7+ years experience on backend infrastructure, or Storage 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 infra systems work at scale
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org
- Redis and/or Memcache experience is a big plus
What the job involves
- Build out cost effective, highly scalable, and mission critical Redis clusters for the company, with minimal manual intervention in steady state, and achieving high availability and performance requirements
- Support application’s needs for a strongly consistent caching layer with high availability, meanwhile making reasonable trade-offs when necessary
- Frequently serve on the critical path of various major product launches for the company
- 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 and Caching infrastructures
- 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
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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