Engineering Manager, Ranking Platform (Remote - US only)

A large online community platform is hiring an Engineering Manager for its Ranking Platform team. The team builds the backend services, feature indexes and data pipelines that personalize feeds, search and other product experiences for a very large user base. The role leads a team of engineers and works closely with senior engineers, product managers and machine learning leaders to set direction and ship platform work from planning through production.

What you'll do

• Set the team's roadmap and priorities with senior engineers and partner teams, and deliver multi-quarter platform initiatives
• Hire, coach and develop engineers, set clear expectations and manage performance
• Own team health and operational excellence, including incident response, postmortems, observability and safe rollouts
• Guide architecture choices that balance reliability, latency, data freshness and infrastructure cost
• Partner with feed, search, ads, ML platform and infrastructure teams to align roadmaps and make platform capabilities easier to adopt
• Keep engineering practices lightweight and push for simplification where it improves maintainability

What you need

• 5+ years of people management experience leading high-performing engineering teams
• 7+ years building large-scale backend distributed systems with production software experience
• Experience leading teams or initiatives in ML infrastructure, ranking or recommendation systems, indexing, or streaming and batch data pipelines
• Strong technical judgment on high-throughput services and APIs, and a track record of delivering platform work across teams
• Experience improving production operations through monitoring, incident management and reliability engineering
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed environment
• Must be based in the United States. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Applicants must be based in: United States.

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