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Engineering Manager, Search Storage

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Job Summary

Lead and grow a storage-focused backend infrastructure team for Reddit's search platform, guiding high-impact projects, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across Reddit Engineering to scale search primitives, support lexical and semantic search, and improve reliability and performance at scale.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 217,000 - 303,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health Insurance401kParental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

•3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
•7+ years experience on backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems, including 5+ years 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, with excellent communication and collaboration across the engineering org.

Experience:StorageSearchDistributed systemsKubernetesBackend infrastructure

Skills:GoRustC++JavaKubernetesSolrMilvusVespaVector embeddingsBM25Distributed systems

Languages:English

Tech Stack:GoRustC++JavaKubernetesMilvusVespaSolrBM25Vector embeddings

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

Website LinkedIn

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