Engineering Manager, Search Storage

Search Infrastructure builds and operates the foundational components for platform teams at Reddit to build atop. Our systems satisfy needs ranging from classical ranking/search (BM25) to more modern and novel spaces involving vector embeddings. We are a team of software and machine learning engineers who build platforms around and evolve technologies including Milvus, Vespa, Solr, Kubernetes. As Reddit’s usage of AI and embedding models grows, conventional databases don’t fit the needs of our scale. This is an opportunity to sit at the cutting edge of this space and help establish the future of Reddit’s search capabilities while maturing a (relatively) newer ecosystem of technologies.

Responsibilities

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

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 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

Nice to have

Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs; 401k with Employer Match; Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle; 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 offered); Medical, dental, and vision insurance