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“Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity at Reddit. Skills: Engineering Management, Developer Productivity, AI Tooling, Platform Strategy. Lead and grow engineering teams. Foster culture of technical excellence”
What You'll Achieve.
Make AI-native development safe, measurable, scalable, and effective; Build the path for agentic development; Help engineers move faster with higher confidence; Increase delivered value rather than just activity; Reduce friction; Improve engineering effectiveness; Help teams focus on delivering impact; Create foundations for AI-native engineering; Enable safe and effective experimentation at scale; Help teams move from experimentation to durable adoption; Maintain quality, reliability, and operational safety; Distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics; Improve outcomes, not just increasing activity; Preserve engineering creativity; Ensure security, cost management, privacy, compliance, and operational safety are built into the development lifecycle; Deliver outcomes and help teams understand the difference between motion and impact
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving; Identify systemic risks; Guide architectural tradeoffs; Help teams make pragmatic decisions
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience across software engineering, engineering management, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains, experience leading engineering teams, managed high-performing engineering teams delivering large-scale technical platforms or infrastructure with executive visibility and cross-functional dependencies, deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows, understand AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity, reason about agent workflows, governance, evals, telemetry, code quality, review burden, cost controls, and operational risk, highly data-driven, exceptional cross-functional leader and communicator, led meaningful organizational change, not just technical delivery, shift behavior across teams by listening to concerns, building confidence, and making the desired path easier and more valuable than the status quo, care deeply about engineering quality, operational excellence, and developer experience, balance speed with long-term maintainability and reliability, get things done, pragmatic and iterative
Nice to Have
Experience leading developer productivity, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, or AI tooling teams at large scale, Experience with LLM platforms, AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or AI governance in an enterprise engineering environment, Experience building internal platforms or developer tools where success depends on trust, usability, reliability, and measurable value, Experience leading organizational transformation, platform adoption, or engineering workflow modernization initiatives across large engineering organizations, Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or similar multi-dimensional measurement approaches, Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms are evolving at the same time
What You'll Do.
Lead and grow engineering teams
Foster culture of technical excellence
Partner with leaders to translate strategy
Define and evolve operating model
Drive alignment across stakeholders
Build engineering systems and processes
Develop communication and enablement mechanisms
Build and operationalize measurement systems
Drive AI governance and platform adoption
Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions
Partner with leadership on planning
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering leaders; Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders; Drive alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders; Influence across organizations; Create clarity across teams; Bring people together; Create clarity across organizations; Build trust across functions; Translate complex technical and organizational change; Partner with engineering and data teams; Partner with senior engineering leadership
Communication Scope
Exceptional cross-functional leader and communicator; Translate complex technical and organizational change into clear narratives; Develop communication and enablement mechanisms; Clear narratives that connect workflow change to business and engineering outcomes
Process & Methodology
Roadmaps, Rollout plans
Full Job Description
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. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Agents & Developer Productivity to lead teams building AI-assisted engineering workflows. This role will partner with engineering leaders in infrastructure, developer productivity, security, product engineering, ads, machine learning, and senior technical leadership to make AI-native development safe, measurable, scalable, and effective across Reddit. Reddit is entering a new era of software development. AI and agentic workflows are changing how code is planned, written, reviewed, tested, and shipped. Used well, these tools can help engineers move faster with higher confidence. Used poorly, they can increase complexity, review burden, operational risk, and cost. This role will help Reddit build the path for agentic development: flexible enough for teams to experiment, opinionated enough to protect quality, and measurable enough to prove whether AI is increasing delivered value rather than just activity. Just as importantly, this role will help bring teams along for that change, building trust in new workflows and helping Reddit evolve how we build software together. Who We Are The Developer Productivity organization builds the platforms, systems, and workflows that enable Reddit engineers to develop, test, review, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently at scale. We work across infrastructure, AI tooling, developer environments, CI/CD, observability, code review, and software delivery systems to reduce friction, improve engineering effectiveness, and help teams
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