Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Reddit

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$217,000–$303,000 / yr
Posted
61 days ago
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Above market

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

JOB TITLE: Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform The Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform leads the Notifications Platform team to build durable infrastructure for push, email, and in-app notifications. This role involves leading a team of software engineers to architect, build, and operate scalable platform capabilities including notification APIs, eventing, workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability. You will set technical direction for high-scale distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and security while collaborating with ML teams to productionize notification systems. The role requires expertise in service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling. You will manage the full development lifecycle to improve developer experience and ensure the platform provides dependable, timely communications for users across the community.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $279400 from 84 postings across 24 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform and its underlying infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction for platform capabilities including APIs, eventing, delivery pipelines, and observability.
  • Partner with ML teams to build and productionize scalable foundations for ML-powered notification systems.
  • Define platform contracts and improve developer experience to enable safe and efficient feature launches.
  • Drive the full development lifecycle including design, testing, deployment, and continuous operational improvement.
  • Establish practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, and security across all platform services.
  • Manage team growth by identifying career goals and creating professional development plans for engineers.
  • Communicate team progress and align technical plans with company goals for product and upper management.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production.
  • Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
  • Experience setting technical direction for platform teams while balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
  • Experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems (preferred).
  • Ability to communicate complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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