Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

The role

This role runs the team that maintains Reddit's core notification foundations, spanning service interfaces, event pipelines, delivery flow, preference settings, message templates, and dependability work. The group supports product teams across the company and works alongside adjacent ML teams that build notification features. The manager sets technical priorities, plans with product and senior leadership, and develops the engineers on the team.

What you would do

• Guide a group of engineers who design, ship, and operate the notifications platform.
• Define technical strategy for shared services like delivery pipelines, preference management, templating, and experiment hooks.
• Support ML-focused teams by supplying scalable infrastructure and operational backing for their notification models.
• Work with product and engineering peers to set clear service contracts and make launches safer and faster.
• Oversee the full software lifecycle, from design through operations, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Set standards for reliability, performance, privacy, and security across the platform.
• Assemble and sustain a varied team able to solve hard technical problems together.
• Advise product leadership and senior management so the team's roadmap fits company objectives.
• Coordinate expectations and communication with cross-functional partners.
• Coach engineers on growth goals and build individual development plans.

What they asked for

• At least two years leading and developing engineering groups.
• Five or more years as an engineer or manager building and running large distributed or platform systems.
• Solid grasp of distributed architecture, event-driven designs, and production APIs.
• Background running highly available, low-latency services with strong operations habits.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, storage layers, streaming and queueing systems, and monitoring tools.
• Track record of guiding platform teams while weighing standardization against flexibility and autonomy.
• Self-starting, outcome-focused, and comfortable moving quickly with little structure.
• Clear communicator who can explain intricate subjects to both engineers and non-engineers.
• Comfortable working through open-ended problems that have no obvious answer.

Nice to have

• Past exposure to high-volume outbound messaging systems is a bonus.