Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

As an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, efficiency, and resilience of your team's systems and services, as well as working to ensure that the experience of your customers other internal engineering teams steadily improves. This includes implementing and maintaining monitoring systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address performance bottlenecks and continuously improving the reliability and scalability of our systems to meet the evolving needs of our users. You will find and apply leverage to improve the reliability of all internal services at Reddit, including the ability of SREs and other engineering teams supporting production services to do incident response well.

How You'll Have Impact :

Reporting into the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, your peers will be the other Engineering Managers in SRE and Infrastructure. Your customers will be the other engineering teams at Reddit, who build on our standard infrastructure. You will partner with stakeholders to understand your team's service priorities and contribute to the design, development, and adoption of reliable and performant services within your area.

You will be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a team of engineers to help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone.

What You'll Do

• Set clear goals for your team, defining success metrics, and track progress towards achieving those goals and contribute to the overall Site Reliability Engineering strategy.
• Support multiple Reddit product teams with expertise in cloud compute infrastructure (Kubernetes, etc.) to optimize availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Ensure our infrastructure can scale to a large multiple of what it is today.
• Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions.
• Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Reddit's SRE priorities across all of our products.
• Support the reliable operation of these systems as a Platform for Reddit products, and allow us to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users.
• Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internal supported options (Golang, Redis, etc)
• Support the full talent lifecycle for your team, including hiring, culture-building, growth, and performance management. Coach and develop your direct reports, providing career development plans and fostering a growth-oriented team environment.
• Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles.
• Set and support a culture of metrics driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
• Drive a cycle of virtuous improvement with blame-free postmortems.

What We Look For

Benefits :

The base pay range for this position is : $217,000 - $303,900 USD