engineering
Posted 2 hours agoEngineering Manager, Media Foundations and Delivery
at Redditinc
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Drive Infrastructure Modernization: Lead the architectural shift to elevate media to a first class citizen.
- Optimize Playback & Delivery: Own key success metrics related to Quality of Services (QoS), including Time to First Frame (TTFF), stall/rebuffer rates, exits before video screen (EBVS).
- Manage Global Distribution: Partner closely with our infrastructure teams to define how to scale media via Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), edge computing, and caching strategies.
- Champion a culture of innovation and experimentation, where team members are encouraged to explore, test, and refine novel ideas, while balancing platform scale with product velocity.
Requirements
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
- You will lead a cross-functional group of Backend, iOS, Android, and Web engineers to evolve our media stack and to unlock the next phase of growth at Reddit. What You'll Do
- Work in close partnership with Product, Data, and ML teams to ensure effective leadership, alignment with broader organizational objectives, and maximum impact.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience managing cross-platform teams (Backend and Mobile/Client) is highly preferred.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python).
- A strong background in video streaming technologies, CDN routing, and media ingestion. You should understand the intricacies of multi-part uploads, encoding schedulers, and adaptive bitrate streaming.
- Proven ability to balance immediate performance fixes (e.g., MP4 playback optimizations) with long-term architectural overhauls (e.g., media delivery at the edge, caching strategies). •
- Proven ability to brainstorm and implement experimental ideas to drive growth.
- Experience managing media creation experience, such as video or image editing tools, composers, or UIs for creators. Benefits:
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
- In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience, specifically leading complex, high-volume consumer systems.
Benefits
- Establish a clear technical vision and direction for our media systems, while staying ahead of the curve in terms of emerging technologies.
- Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave Pay Transparency:
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
- To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
- The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,000 USD
Contact
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .
- To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
Additional details
- It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- Video consumption on our platform is experiencing massive organic growth, and we are heavily investing in integrating media as a functional layer of human discussion.
- In this role, you will help transition media into a first-class citizen with a strong technical foundation and extensible architecture.
- You will define the path to ensure reliable streaming for all of our users across the globe.
- Experience defining and governing clear Service Level Objectives and Indicators (SLOS, SLIs) to drive media investment decisions.
- Exceptional leadership, team management, communication, and collaboration skills. •
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- This job posting may span more than one career level.
- Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work
- experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.