Senior Engineering Manager, Reddit

Developer Platform

$232.5-325.5k

+ Equity (RSU's)

Expert level
Remote in US
Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

$232.5-325.5k

+ Equity (RSU's)

Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 10+ years of industry experience, preferably building, maintaining, and managing platforms and infrastructure
  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • 2+ years of experience building products/features/platforms for a technical audience
  • 2+ years of experience in a consumer internet, data, or streaming platform at high-scale
  • You're highly technical, enough to solve many problems your team has yourself, but you prefer to guide your team into solving them
  • You're high-agency, self-directed, detail-oriented, and reliable

Desirable

  • You've built or contributed significantly to a cutting edge (perhaps at the time) OSS project or suite of developer tools

What the job involves

  • The goal of the Reddit Developer Platform team is to further empower communities to innovate while establishing a significant new business centered on our Data API
  • We are looking for a hybrid technologist & leader to serve as a Senior Engineering Manager for the DevPlatform team, driving the roadmap of some of our ambitious technical bets to make developing apps inside Reddit easier and more powerful
  • Building & evolving a cross-platform App-building ecosystem, including various bets around specializations for games, JS apps, client integrations, and novel DX frameworks
  • Building & evolving a FaaS platform designed for hosting Redditor's apps
  • Evolving Reddit's public API and capabilities towards a cleaner, more elegant Developer Experience
  • Making a platform that is highly available, low on latency, and at internet scale
  • Laying the technical foundation for future features and experiences by building an ambitious yet attainable roadmap
  • Build and manage a team of 7-8 engineers, hiring top-notch individual contributors and giving them room to shine
  • Build and execute a technical roadmap of systems improvements
  • Be the owner and steward of Reddit's developer-related R&D
  • Be the cross-functional face of your team to stakeholders across Product, BD, and more

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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57% employee growth in 12 months

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

Founders

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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