[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Reddit logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/10/Reddit.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)[Reddit](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md) # Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/reddit.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 217k–303k / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished26 Oct 2026Apply before25 Nov 2026Listing views39Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Reddit is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Notifications Platform team, which delivers shared infrastructure for push, email, and in-app notifications. The manager will set technical direction for APIs, event-driven workflows, delivery pipelines, preferences, templates, experimentation, observability, and highly available services. This role combines people leadership, platform strategy, operational excellence, and close partnership with product, engineering, and notifications ML teams. The position is suited to an experienced engineering leader who can guide scalable distributed systems while developing a high-performing team. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThe role requires leadership of a high-scale, business-critical distributed platform alongside deep technical judgment in reliability, eventing, APIs, and operational systems. It also demands alignment across product, ML, and engineering stakeholders while managing ambiguous platform priorities. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$260,000US market range (per year)$220k–$320k0$352k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a base salary range of $217,000–$303,000 USD. Although the cadence is not explicitly stated beside the range, yearly compensation is inferred from the US-based senior Engineering Manager role and the stated base-salary context. The disclosed midpoint is $260,000 per year; the estimated US market range is $220,000–$320,000 per year, excluding equity and other benefits. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Engineering leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20leadership.md)[Distributed systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20systems.md)[Platform engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Platform%20engineering.md)[Event-driven architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Event-driven%20architecture.md)[API design](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=API%20design.md)[Notification systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Notification%20systems.md)[Service-oriented architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Service-oriented%20architecture.md)[Cloud infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cloud%20infrastructure.md)[Messaging systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Messaging%20systems.md)[Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md)[Reliability engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Reliability%20engineering.md)[Performance optimization](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Performance%20optimization.md)[People management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=People%20management.md)[Technical strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20strategy.md)[Cross-functional communication](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cross-functional%20communication.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you establish a technical roadmap for a notifications platform used by many product teams?I would begin by mapping current consumers, reliability risks, delivery bottlenecks, and developer pain points. I would define platform contracts and measurable outcomes such as delivery success rate, latency, adoption, and incident reduction, then sequence investments between foundational reliability work and product-enabling capabilities. I would review the roadmap regularly with product, ML, and engineering stakeholders. Describe how you would improve reliability for a high-volume event-driven notification pipeline. I would identify failure modes across ingestion, orchestration, provider delivery, retries, preference enforcement, and observability. The design should use durable events, idempotent processing, backpressure controls, clear retry and dead-letter policies, and service-level objectives. I would also ensure that dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident reviews create a continuous improvement loop. How do you balance platform consistency with autonomy for product engineering teams? I establish opinionated defaults and stable APIs for common needs while allowing documented extension points for legitimate product-specific requirements. Decisions should be guided by adoption friction, operational cost, and the long-term maintenance burden. Regular design reviews and feedback from consuming teams help distinguish necessary flexibility from avoidable fragmentation. How would you support an engineering team working on ambiguous technical and product problems? I would make the ambiguity explicit, clarify the customer and business outcome, and break the work into reversible experiments and decision milestones. Engineers should have ownership of proposals and implementation choices, with timely feedback on trade-offs. I would communicate risks and decisions broadly so stakeholders remain aligned as the plan evolves. What is your approach to developing senior engineers and future technical leaders? I work with each engineer to define concrete growth goals tied to impactful work, such as leading an architecture decision, owning a reliability initiative, or mentoring others. I provide regular feedback, create visible opportunities for ownership, and calibrate expectations clearly. Progress is reviewed through outcomes, technical influence, collaboration, and sustained operational responsibility. Opportunity details ## About this role. Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/). The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit’s push, email, and in-app notifications. We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit. This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about. If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you’ve found the right place. What You’ll Do * Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit. * Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability. * Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need. * Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently. * Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services. * Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform. * Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges. * Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals. * Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders. * Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You Have: * 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams. * 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services. * Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus. * Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices. * Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling. * Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy. * Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments. * Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences. * Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems. 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 Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. 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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of 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 learn more, please visit [https://www.redditinc.com/careers/](https://www.redditinc.com/careers/). 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