Engineering Manager, Data Pipeline

Reddit

8d • Remote

About The Position

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. Reddit’s Core Platform organization builds the foundational software, frameworks, and infrastructure that power the rest of the company. Operating in a complex, multi-cloud environment spanning AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, this group ensures our systems scale with the demands of Reddit’s rapidly growing user base and evolving business. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Pipeline team, which owns the infrastructure responsible for generating, ingesting, and processing petabytes of data—over 250 billion events per day—used across Reddit by teams like Ads, Machine Learning, and Data Science. This is a high-impact, technically complex role where your leadership will drive reliability, scalability, and innovation in one of Reddit’s most critical data systems. You’ll partner closely with teams across the company and work at the center of Reddit’s real-time and batch data ecosystem. Experience managing high-performing engineering teams and building distributed systems at web scale is key to success in this role.

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
• 7+ years experience in large scale backend distributed 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 data infra systems work at scale.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Go, Kubernetes, Flink, Kafka, BigQuery is a huge plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and long-term evolution of Reddit’s Data Pipeline to support ongoing scale and growth.
• Drive high-impact, high-leverage projects that align with Reddit’s broader engineering and business goals.
• Build and grow a high-performing team, including hiring, mentoring, and creating a culture of technical excellence.
• Establish and champion best practices for data production, consumption, and governance across the company.
• Ensure the pipeline remains highly reliable and low latency, even at massive scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams across Reddit—such as Ads, ML, and Consumer—to support their data needs.
• Extend data infrastructure capabilities across multiple data centers and cloud environments.
• Continuously develop your own technical and leadership skills while helping others grow.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees