Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead teams building AI-assisted engineering workflows. This role will partner with engineering leaders in infrastructure, developer productivity, security, product engineering, ads, machine learning, and senior technical leadership to make AI-native development safe, measurable, scalable, and effective across Reddit. Reddit is entering a new era of software development. AI and agentic workflows are changing how code is planned, written, reviewed, tested, and shipped. Used well, these tools can help engineers move faster with higher confidence. Used poorly, they can increase complexity, review burden, operational risk, and cost. This role will help Reddit build the path for agentic development: flexible enough for teams to experiment, opinionated enough to protect quality, and measurable enough to prove whether AI is increasing delivered value rather than just activity.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams focused on AI-native developer productivity; Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders to translate strategy into scalable platforms and engineering roadmaps; Define and evolve the operating model for AI-native software development; Drive alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders; Build engineering systems and organizational processes that help teams move from experimentation to durable adoption of AI-assisted workflows; Develop communication and enablement mechanisms; Build and operationalize measurement systems that distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics; Drive AI governance and platform adoption; Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, guide architectural tradeoffs, and help teams make pragmatic decisions; Partner with senior engineering leadership on organizational planning, technical investment strategy, hiring, career development, and long-term platform evolution

Requirements

14+ years of experience across software engineering, engineering management, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains, including experience leading engineering teams; Managed high-performing engineering teams delivering large-scale technical platforms or infrastructure with executive visibility and cross-functional dependencies; Deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows; Understanding of AI and LLM-enabled software development, including agent workflows, governance, evals, telemetry, code quality, review burden, cost controls, and operational risk; Highly data-driven and skeptical of shallow metrics, with ability to build measurement systems connecting workflow improvements to business and engineering outcomes; Exceptional cross-functional leader and communicator; Led meaningful organizational change, not just technical delivery; Deep care for engineering quality, operational excellence, and developer experience; Pragmatic and iterative, able to introduce structure without slowing teams down

Nice to have

Experience leading developer productivity, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, or AI tooling teams at large scale; Experience with LLM platforms, AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or AI governance in an enterprise engineering environment; Experience building internal platforms or developer tools where success depends on trust, usability, reliability, and measurable value; Experience leading organizational transformation, platform adoption, or engineering workflow modernization initiatives across large engineering organizations; Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or similar multi-dimensional measurement approaches; Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms are evolving at the same time

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; Equity in the form of restricted stock units; Commission (depending on position); Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) program with employer match; Generous time off for vacation; parental leave