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Engineering Manager, Site Defense

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Job Summary

Lead and grow Reddit’s Transport and Site Defense teams, owning critical infrastructure behind request entry, service discovery, traffic routing, and DDoS/bot protection. Drive major platform migrations (Fastly to Cloudflare, service discovery to Portal Transporter, Thrift to gRPC), expand site defense coverage across post-CDN traffic, and maintain high availability and low latency through strong operational excellence, SLOs, on-call quality, and cross-team execution.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, hire, onboard, and develop infrastructure engineers across Transport and Site Defense.
•Partner with senior ICs to set technical strategy for global traffic, edge/CDN, service discovery, gRPC datapath, rate limiting, site defense, and bot detection infrastructure.
•Drive multi-quarter execution on high-risk platform migrations (CDN migration, inter-cluster load balancers, Thrift to gRPC, Site Defense Platform expansion).
•Establish priority frameworks balancing KTLO, roadmap commitments, incidents, business-critical migrations, and cross-functional asks.
•Maintain a healthy operational model for critical infrastructure, including on-call quality, SLOs, dashboards, incident response, postmortems, and proactive maintenance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 217,000 - 303,900 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

•3+ years of people-management experience for software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security/abuse-defense engineering teams.
•5+ years building or operating internet-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, cloud platforms, service mesh, edge/CDN, or reliability-critical systems.
•Strong technical judgment across Kubernetes, Envoy, Contour, xDS, gRPC, CDNs, DNS, load balancing, cloud networking, rate limiting, service discovery, traffic routing, and observability.
•Experience managing operationally critical services including on-call, incident response, reliability review, SLOs, and production-change safety.
•Proven ability to lead large migrations or platform adoption efforts across many customer teams.

Experience:Internet-scale infrastructureDistributed systemsNetworkingCloud platformsService meshEdge/CDNReliability engineeringSRESecurity/abuse-defense

Skills:Technical judgmentCommunicationPrioritizationStakeholder managementEmpathy

Languages:English

Tech Stack:FastlyCloudflarePortal TransporterGRPCXDSThriftTGRPCKubernetesEnvoyContourCDNsDNSLoad balancingCloud networkingRate limitingService discoveryTraffic routingObservabilityService meshRecaptcha

Company Brief

Operates Reddit, a large online community and discussion platform where users submit content, comment, and vote across topic-based communities (subreddits); monetizes via advertising, premium subscriptions, and awards.

Industry: Digital Media

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2005

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