Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there\'s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit .

As the Director of Reddit\'s Core Platform, you will be responsible for the service layers that Reddit rests upon, define and maintain the core data models that Reddit uses, and allow all the different parts of Reddit to work smoothly together at scale.

How You\'ll have impact:

Reporting into the global Head of Infrastructure, your peers and customers will be all of the other engineering directors at Reddit. You will partner with a multitude of stakeholders to understand Reddit\'s core service priorities across all of our product lines, and will guide design, development, and adoption of a scalable, reliable, and low latency core service stack. This stack will operate in multiple cloud environments, and provide an API platform for Reddit to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users.

You will be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a world-class team of engineers to help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone.

What You\'ll Do:

• Develop, drive and execute a long term vision and strategy for Core Services to be leveraged by all of Reddit\'s products.
• Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Reddit\'s core service priorities across all of our products.
• Deliver and maintain a long term roadmap for core service capabilities and supported/recommended interfaces for development.
• Establish a stronger Platform-Product interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions.
• Support the reliable operation of these systems as a Platform for Reddit products, and allow us to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services to our end users.
• Drive the identification and scoping of data access and auditability requirements for across core services, in order to support operation as a public company.
• Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internal supported options (Golang, Redis, etc)
• Lead, manage and grow high-caliber engineering teams.
• Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles at a company scale.
• Set and support a culture of metrics driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency.
• Help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone.

Who You Might Be:

• 6+ years experience of managing teams of software and infrastructure engineers.
• 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in backend roles.
• Professional experience and capability with scaled, high rate platform services, and API design
• Track record of assembling high functioning organization
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

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