Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
• 2
  Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
• 3
  Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
• 4
  Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
• 5
  Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
• 6
  Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• 7
  Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
• 8
  Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• 9
  Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
• 10
  Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
• Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Perks & Benefits