Engineering Manager, Safety

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

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 provid