Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity

About the role

Reddit is looking for a Director of Engineering 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams focused on AI-native developer productivity, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders to translate strategy into scalable platforms and engineering roadmaps across code review, agent infrastructure, self-service LLM access, evaluation and observability systems, development environments, and safe agent workflows across the software development lifecycle.
• Define and evolve the operating model for AI-native software development, including paved paths, platform adoption strategies, governance models, and engineering standards that enable safe and effective experimentation at scale.
• Drive alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders.
• Build engineering systems and organizational processes that help teams move from experimentation to durable adoption of AI-assisted workflows while maintaining quality, reliability, and operational safety.
• Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey, including technical strategy reviews, working groups, training, documentation, rollout plans, and clear narratives that connect workflow change to business and engineering outcomes.
• Build and operationalize measurement systems that distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics.
• Drive AI governance and platform adoption in a way that preserves engineering creativity while ensuring security, cost management, privacy, compliance, and operational safety are built into the development lifecycle.
• Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, guide architectural tradeoffs, and help teams make pragmatic decisions across AI tooling, CI/CD, code review, deploy automation, developer environments, and production reliability.
• Partner with senior engineering leadership on organizational planning, technical investment strategy, hiring, career development, and long-term platform evolution.

Requirements

• 14+ years of experience across software engineering, engineering management, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains, including 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.
• Understanding of AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity.
• Highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics.
• Exceptional cross-functional leader and communicator.
• Led meaningful organizational change, not just technical delivery.
• Care deeply about engineering quality, operational excellence, and developer experience, and know how to balance speed with long-term maintainability and reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is: $260,800—$365,100 USD