Engineering Manager, Safety
Lead a high-impact engineering team focused on building scalable safety tooling and automated defense systems at Reddit.
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
You will lead a team enabling automated AI training and workflows at the core of Reddit’s safety strategy.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Engineering Manager for Safety at Reddit leads a team focused on developing and scaling safety tools to protect users from harmful content and behavior. This role requires expertise in full-stack engineering and experience managing larger teams, particularly in AI and machine learning applications. Ideal candidates are those with a strong background in engineering leadership who thrive in dynamic environments and prioritize user safety. Reddit's commitment to a high-autonomy work culture enhances the appeal of this position.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 172 other open roles including Senior Account Executive, Mid-Market (DACH), Senior Staff Data Scientist - Consumer Relevance, Engineering Manager, Advanced Signals (SWE).
- 1592 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 34 active Backend roles on Joblaze right now.
- 17 active full-stack roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Management (median ~$180,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Engineering Manager, Safety role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Safety role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Backend, full-stack.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Safety role at Reddit.
From the original posting
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 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
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