Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Reddit

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$217,000–$303,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $222k
This role $260k
$159k most similar roles pay here $318k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $174,250–$270,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $222k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform will lead the Notifications Platform team to build durable infrastructure and services powering push, email, and in-app notifications. This role involves leading a team of software engineers to architect, develop, and operate scalable platform capabilities including notification APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, user preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, and observability. The manager will set technical direction for high-availability distributed systems, collaborate with machine learning teams to productionize ML-powered systems, and partner with product teams to improve developer experience. Key requirements include expertise in service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling. The role focuses on solving the technical challenge of providing reliable, high-volume delivery systems while ensuring performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence for a large-scale notification ecosystem.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the team responsible for architecting, building, and operating the Notifications Platform infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction for shared capabilities including APIs, eventing, delivery pipelines, and observability.
  • Partner with ML teams to build and productionize scalable foundations for machine learning notification systems.
  • Define platform contracts and improve developer experience to enable safe, efficient feature launches.
  • Manage the full development lifecycle including design, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of high-availability services.
  • Establish standards for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, and security across all platform services.
  • Mentor engineers by identifying career goals and creating personalized professional development plans.
  • Communicate team progress and align technical roadmaps with company goals to cross-functional stakeholders.

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.
  • 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.
  • Ability to communicate complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems (preferred).

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