# Engineering Manager, Search Storage

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $217k – $303k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Milvus, Vespa, Solr, Go, Rust, C++, Java, Bm25, Vector Embeddings
**Posted:** 2026-04-27

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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