Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams focused on AI-native developer productivity, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Define and evolve the operating model for AI-native software development , including paved paths, platform adoption strategies, governance models, and engineering standards that enable safe and effective experimentation at scale.
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 while maintaining quality, reliability, and operational safety.
Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey, including technical strategy reviews, working groups, training, documentation, rollout plans, and clear narratives that connect workflow change to business and engineering outcomes.
Build and operationalize measurement systems that distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics.
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.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Agents & Developer Productivity 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.
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.
We work across infrastructure, AI tooling, developer environments, CI/CD, observability, code review, and software delivery systems to reduce friction, improve engineering effectiveness, and help teams focus on delivering impact for Reddit users.
As AI and agentic workflows reshape software development, Developer Productivity is helping define how Reddit builds software in the future.
We are creating the foundations for AI-native engineering: scalable platforms for LLM access and evaluation, safe agent workflows, intelligent development environments, and measurement systems that help teams understand whether new tools are improving outcomes, not just increasing activity.
We partner closely with engineering teams across Reddit to build paved paths that support experimentation while maintaining the quality, reliability, security, and operational standards required to run Reddit at scale. What You'll Do
You will lead teams across Reddit's Developer Productivity and AI portfolio, spanning agent infrastructure, AI-assisted code review, developer environments, LLM governance, developer tooling, AI workflow measurement, and software delivery automation.
Partner with engineering and data teams to define metrics such as design-to-test time, test-to-launch time, review turnaround, change failure rate, time to restore service, AI-authored code quality, AI-assisted pull request load, migration throughput, and developer satisfaction.
Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, guide architectural tradeoffs, and help teams make pragmatic decisions across AI tooling, CI/CD, code review, deploy automation, developer environments, and production reliability.
experience across software engineering, engineering management, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains, including
experience leading engineering teams.
You have deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows.
You understand AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity.
You are highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics. You know how to build measurement systems that connect workflow improvements to business and engineering outcomes.
You know how to shift behavior across teams by listening to concerns, building confidence, and making the desired path easier and more valuable than the status quo.
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 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:
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
You have 10+ years of
Benefits
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: $232,500 — $325,500 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.
Used well, these tools can help engineers move faster with higher confidence.
Used poorly, they can increase complexity, review burden, operational risk, and cost.
Just as importantly, this role will help bring teams along for that change, building trust in new workflows and helping Reddit evolve how we build software together. Who We Are
You will partner deeply with engineering teams as a technical leader, balancing execution, organizational alignment, technical quality, and long-term platform strategy.
Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders to translate strategy into scalable platforms and engineering roadmaps across code review, agent infrastructure, self-service LLM access, evaluation and observability systems, development environments, and safe agent workflows across the software development lifecycle.
You will influence across organizations and create clarity across teams with different priorities and incentives.
Partner with senior engineering leadership on organizational planning, technical investment strategy, hiring, career development, and long-term platform evolution. Who You Are
You have managed high-performing engineering teams delivering large-scale technical platforms or infrastructure with executive visibility and cross-functional dependencies.
You are comfortable operating with senior leaders while still engaging deeply in technical and operational details.