Engineering Manager, Caching Systems

The job overview for this position is that Reddit is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Caching Systems team within the Storage Infrastructure team. The Caching Systems team is responsible for the Memcache fleet and Redis fleet, which are critical components of the core applications supporting the Reddit site, as well as Machine Learning and Ads workflows. The team is currently focused on revamping one of the caching systems to achieve cost savings, and the Engineering Manager will play a key role in this initiative. This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team and contribute to the development of cost-effective, scalable, and high-performing caching clusters for Reddit.

Build cost effective, highly scalable, and mission critical Redis clusters for the company, with minimal manual intervention in steady state, and achieving high availability and performance requirements.

Support application’s needs for a strongly consistent caching layer with high availability, meanwhile making reasonable trade-offs when necessary.

Frequently serve on the critical path of various major product launches for the company.

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 and Caching infrastructures.

3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.

7+ years experience on backend infrastructure, or Storage systems.

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.

Redis and/or Memcache experience is a big plus.

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off