Engineering Manager (Search Storage)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Search Storage): Leading the development of foundational search infrastructure and storage systems with an accent on scalability, reliability, and high-scale performance. Focus on evolving vector embeddings, semantic search, and managing geo-distributed storage primitives.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $217,000 - $303,000 USD

Company

Reddit is a community-driven platform hosting over 100,000 active communities and millions of daily visitors.

What you will do

• Drive high-leverage projects aligned with company goals.
• Scale and grow the engineering team to build more efficient and reliable storage systems.
• Mentor individual contributors and provide technical leadership for the team.
• Collaborate with various engineering teams across Reddit.
• Maintain and evolve storage systems supporting lexical search, semantic search, and ranking.
• Manage the full system lifecycle including provisioning, scaling, and self-healing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in people management of high-performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience in backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems.
• 5+ years of experience in high-scale environments.
• Experience running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems like Kubernetes.
• Must be based in the United States.
• Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality.

Nice to have

• Experience with full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN).
• Contributions to open-source ecosystems in Go, Rust, C++, or Java.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401k with employer match.
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning support.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Gender-affirming care.