Engineering Manager (Search Storage)

About the role

Join Reddit as an Engineering Manager, where you will lead a team in selecting, scoping, and driving high-impact projects that align with the company's goals. You will build and mentor your team, collaborate with various teams across Reddit Engineering, and continuously improve your technical and non-technical abilities. Enjoy comprehensive health benefits, flexible vacation, family planning funds, paid volunteer time off, and workspace/home office benefits. Key missions: Steer the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.. Build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, more reliable Storage systems.. Mentor your individual contributors and be a leader for the team, fostering their professional growth. Profile: - Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus - Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases - 3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams - 7+ years experience on backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems - High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org - 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments is key - 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 - Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes