Reddit

Engineering Manager, Safety

Reddit$217K — $303K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience managing larger engineering teams (10+ ICs) and scaling operations effectively.
  • Strong technical knowledge in full-stack development and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to develop and communicate a clear roadmap for team objectives and deliver results based on customer and business needs.
  • Passion for team development with skills in coaching, feedback, and cultivating a positive team atmosphere.
  • Innovative mindset with a strong focus on customer needs and adeptness in fast-paced settings.
  • Familiarity or keen interest in AI/ML technologies, particularly in operationalizing LLM and classical workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 13 engineers focusing on automated AI training and workflows for safety initiatives.
  • Manage user-facing tools to help moderators define and enforce community guidelines automatically.
  • Oversee the centralized platform for admin use, aiding in AI model training for behavior detection and processing reports.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, ML, and Operations to implement an AI-first strategy that enhances response times and scales effectively.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
  • 401(k) with employer match included.
  • Flexible global benefits to support lifestyle, including workspace and professional development.
  • Support for family planning and gender-affirming care.
  • Mental health resources and coaching benefits available.
  • Flexible vacation time and paid volunteer time off provided.
  • Generous parental leave policy.
Full Job Description
At Reddit, we work hard to earn our users' trust every day as we pursue our vision to create a welcoming experience where anyone in the world feels a sense of belonging. We're looking for a high-autonomy Engineering Manager to own the strategy, development, and scaling of Reddit's Safety Experience Team. In this role, you will lead a high-impact engineering team dedicated to protecting our users and moderators from bad actors and malicious behavior. You will have full ownership over building the next generation of scalable safety tooling and automated defense systems that empower our global moderator community and equip our internal admin teams to safeguard the platform at scale. If you are an ambitious leader who thrives in ambiguous spaces, loves giving engineers a high degree of autonomy, and is excited by the massive leverage of securing one of the most popular websites in the world using AI, then you've found the right place. **Responsibilities:** - Lead a high-impact team of 13 engineers enabling automated AI training and human-in-the-loop workflows at the core of Reddit's safety strategy - Own the user-facing tools used by moderators to define and automatically enforce the rules in their communities - Own the centralized platform used by admins to train AI models for content and behavior detection at scale, process reports and appeals, and investigate suspicious users and activity - Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, ML, and Operations to define and execute an AI-first platform strategy capable of supporting a 10x surge in scale while slashing incident response from days to seconds **Required Qualifications:** - Track record of directly managing and scaling larger engineering teams (10+ ICs) across full-stack and backend systems architectures - Deep technical competence in full-stack engineering or architecture, with solid experience in large-scale distributed systems - Able to set a roadmap for a team and its members, and deliver results with a strong customer and business focus. - Desire to coach a team, regularly gathering and providing feedback to your team and fostering a healthy team culture. - Customer focused and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments. - Familiarity with or strong interest in AI/ML engineering practices, specifically around serving, prompt engineering, or productionizing LLM/classical workflows at scale . **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 #LI-SP1 **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/. 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. 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. The base salary range for this position is: $217,000-$303,900 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

About Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits", which cover topics such as news, politics, religion, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Although there are strict rules prohibiting harassment, it still occurs, and Reddit administrators moderate the communities and close or restrict them on occasion. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not considered Reddit employees. As of September 2021, Reddit ranks as the 19th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 years, and 14 percent of U.S. adults aged 30 to 49 years, regularly use Reddit. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz, in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto. Their investment valued the company at $500 million then. In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.
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