Senior Engineering Manager, Notifications

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We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications pillar: driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of features that connect millions of users to the communities and content they care about. As a critical part of the Growth org, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data Science, Design, Infrastructure) to refine and scale our notifications platform, ensuring it remains reliable, relevant, and engaging for users.

The successful candidate will be deeply passionate about solving user-centric and business-critical problems, taking full ownership of outcomes, and driving fast, impactful progress even in ambiguous situations. They’ll thrive on brainstorming, experimentation, and iteration, partnering closely with engineering, product, user acquisition, and leadership stakeholders to deliver solutions that truly move the needle.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical & Strategic Leadership: Establish a clear technical vision and direction and oversee end-to-end development of user-facing notifications and engagement features and platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Scale the Notifications Platform: Define best practices for system architecture, tooling, and processes that enable self-serve notification capabilities for other teams across Reddit.
• Expand Relevance Architecture: Guide team on holistic, adaptive systems covering budgeting optimization, candidate retrieval, and ranking. Work closely with embedded ML engineers to design, implement, and optimize machine-learning models that drive personalization and user re-engagement.
• Unlock Channel Experiences: Advance Reddit to best-in-class engagement surfaces and capabilities, enhancing user interactions across push, email, and in-app channels to drive engagement and retentive feedback loops.
• Manage & Mentor a Diverse Team: Lead a group of engineers (including ML, backend, frontend), focusing on career growth, coaching, and technical excellence.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other engineering leads to define a multi-quarter roadmap, align priorities, and deliver features on time.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, ensuring the right bets are taken with the highest quality. 
• Measure Impact & Iterate: Set clear objectives, regularly review metrics, and use data to guide product and platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Proven Engineering Management Experience: 4+ years managing high-performing teams (including ML, Mobile, Frontend and Backend specialists); 9+ years of overall engineering experience.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on background with distributed systems, large-scale backend services, and/or machine-learning pipelines. Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python).
• Strong Cross-Functional Communication and Collaboration: Comfortable working with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders—turning strategic objectives into technical roadmaps.
• Track Record of Delivery: Experience delivering user-facing product features at scale, with an emphasis on reliability, quality, and iterative improvements.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Demonstrated success in hiring, coaching, and retaining diverse engineering talent; ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive environment.
• User-Centric Mindset: Passion for improving user engagement, understanding pain points, and implementing data-driven solutions.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off

Pay Transparency:

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