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Engineering Manager, Search Storage
Location
United States
Posted
38 days ago
Salary
$217K - $303K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Engineering Manager, Search Storage
• 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. • Amplify: Mentor your ICs and be a leader for the team. • Collaborate: Work together with a variety of teams across Reddit Engineering. • Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years experience in people management of high performing engineering teams.
- 7+ years experience on backend infrastructure with a focus on storage systems.
- 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments is key.
- Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.
- Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes.
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
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
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