Reddit
Engineering Manager, Search Storage
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Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Engineering Manager, Search Storage
Requirements and responsibilities
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Details
- Milvus
- Vespa
- Solr
- Kubernetes
- Scaling search primitives, namely databases, to be secure, highly available, and geo-distributed.
- Contributing to ecosystems (OSS) involving codebases including Go, Rust, C++, and Java.
- Managing the full lifecycle of our systems including provisioning, scaling, self healing, and decommissioning via software engineering.
- Working with and abstracting systems like Milvus, Vespa, and Solr to support key use cases, such as lexical search, semantic search, and relevance/ranking.
- Running these systems with high-efficiency without sacrificing reliability.
- 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.
- 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. Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases. Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.
- 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments is key. Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
- Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
- Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.
- Experience with running storage systems atop orchestration/distributed systems, such as Kubernetes.
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how critical infra systems work at scale.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
- 5+ years of this experience spent in high-scale environments is key. Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
- Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
- Experience in storage systems pertaining to full-text search and vector similarity search (ANN) is a huge plus.
- Reddit’s challenges go beyond building/adopting new tech and often into how we scale them as one of the largest use cases.
- 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
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