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Engineering Manager, Search Storage

Leads engineering team building scalable storage systems for Reddit's search infrastructure, focusing on full-text and vector search technologies. Requires 7+ years backend infra experience, 3+ years people management, and expertise in high-scale environments.

217k – 303k
Remote7+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals.
  • Build: Build out your team to execute on a strategy and create more efficient, more reliable Storage systems.
  • Amplify: Mentor your ICs and be a leader for the team.
  • Collaborate: Work together with a variety of teams across Reddit Engineering.
  • Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

You Have

  • 3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
  • 7+ years experience on backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems.
  • 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments.
  • Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.
  • Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes.
  • 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.
  • High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

Skills

KubernetesMilvusVespaSolrGoRustC++JavaBm25Vector Embeddings

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