Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance

Role Description

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance to lead company-wide programs that improve the speed, reliability, and quality of Reddit’s user experience. This role will partner with engineering leaders in product engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, data science, and senior technical leadership to make performance a measurable, durable, and consistently protected part of how Reddit builds and ships software.

Performance is foundational to user trust, engagement, and long-term growth. This role will help Reddit build the path for sustained performance improvement:

• Broad enough to work across platforms and organizations
• Focused enough to address current issues
• Measurable enough to prove whether we are improving the lived experience of users

This role will help bring teams along for that change, building trust across functions and helping Reddit evolve how we make performance part of our engineering culture.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive programs across Reddit's Performance portfolio, spanning mobile and web performance, client reliability, critical user journeys, observability, experimentation guardrails, release quality, and long-term performance operating mechanisms.
• Partner deeply with engineering teams as a technical peer to translate performance strategy into executable programs across mobile, web, and shared platform systems.
• Define and drive the operating model for sustained performance improvement, including:
  • How teams prioritize work
  • How success is measured
  • How regressions are prevented
  • How risks are escalated or resolved
• Drive the organizational change required for performance to become a durable part of Reddit’s engineering culture.
• Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey.
• Build measurement systems that distinguish real user experience improvement from shallow metric movement.
• Drive performance governance and adoption while ensuring user experience, reliability, release quality, experimentation discipline, and business guardrails are not afterthoughts.
• Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, and guide tradeoffs across various domains.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, mobile or web platforms, performance engineering, reliability, observability, or related technical domains.
• Experience leading multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership.
• Deep fluency in performance and reliability systems.
• Understanding of performance beyond individual metrics.
• Highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics.
• Exceptional cross-functional operator and communicator.
• Experience leading meaningful organizational change.
• Ability to get things done and land outcomes.
• Pragmatic and iterative approach to introducing structure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading performance, reliability, client platform, mobile platform, web platform, infrastructure modernization, observability, or experimentation programs at large scale.
• Experience with mobile or web performance, including app startup, rendering, media delivery, networking, caching, crashes, hangs, release quality, or user journey performance.
• Experience building durable operating mechanisms after incidents.
• Experience with experimentation systems and tradeoff decisions.
• Experience building adoption strategies for internal platforms, observability systems, performance tooling, or engineering practices.
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy and execution mechanisms are evolving.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency

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

In select roles and locations, interviews will be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI. You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording prior to any scheduled interviews.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.