Engineering Manager, Site Defense

Reddit, Inc.

Engineering Manager for Site Defense teams at Reddit facing internet-scale challenges. Leading high-impact migrations and fostering a metrics-driven operational culture.

Posted 7/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $217,000 - $303,900 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading and developing high-performing infrastructure engineering teams while driving strategic technical initiatives in internet-scale infrastructure and operational excellence. Proficient in managing critical services and fostering a culture of metrics-driven quality and collaboration across diverse teams.

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People Management ExperienceInternet-Scale InfrastructureKubernetesIncident Response ManagementTechnical Strategy Development

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Hard Skills

KubernetesGRPCCDNLoad BalancingService DiscoveryTraffic RoutingObservabilityCloud NetworkingRate LimitingDistributed Systems

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationPrioritizationStakeholder ManagementHigh EmpathyCoaching

Tools & Technologies

EnvoyContourXDSDNSCloud Platforms

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure EngineeringSite DefenseOperational ModelIncident ResponseMetrics-Driven Quality

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsDNSGRPCKubernetesThrift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a high-caliber team of infrastructure engineers across Transport and Site Defense.
Partner with senior ICs to define technical strategy for global traffic, edge/CDN, service discovery, gRPC datapath, rate limiting, site defense, and bot detection infrastructure.
Drive multi-quarter execution on high-risk platform migrations, including CDN migration, inter-cluster load balancer adoption, Thrift to GRPC migration, and Site Defense Platform expansion.
Establish clear priority frameworks that balance KTLO, roadmap commitments, incidents, business-critical migrations, and cross-functional asks.
Build and maintain a healthy operational model for critical infrastructure, including on-call quality, SLOs, dashboards, incident response, postmortems, and proactive maintenance.
Collaborate deeply with partner teams across Consumer, Ads, Media Platform, Graph QL, SEO, Web Platform, Info Sec, Compute, ML Platform, Storage, DevEx, Safety/Trust, CIAM, and Site Experience SRE.
Coach engineers through technical design, stakeholder alignment, project planning, execution risk, communication, and career growth.
Create a culture of metrics-driven quality, operational transparency, crisp ownership, and pragmatic technical ambition.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of people-management experience for software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security/abuse-defense engineering teams.
5+ years of experience building or operating internet-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, cloud platforms, service mesh, edge/CDN, or reliability-critical systems.
Strong technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes, Envoy, Contour, xDS, gRPC, CDNs, DNS, load balancing, cloud networking, rate limiting, service discovery, traffic routing, and observability.
Experience managing operationally critical services, including: on-call, incident response, reliability review, SLOs, and production-change safety.
Proven ability to lead large migrations or platform adoption efforts across many customer teams.
Ability to partner with senior/staff engineers and translate between technical detail, user impact, team capacity, and executive-level risk.
Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
High empathy for engineers and internal customers, with the judgment to protect team focus while still serving the business.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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