Staff SRE, Ads — Remote (UK/EU) Reliability & Scale

EngineersOfAI; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across the Ads ecosystem, including ad serving, auctions, and billing. You will partner with engineering leaders to improve reliability and scalability, while shaping the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit.

You will design platforms and tooling to boost reliability and developer productivity at scale, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor engineers across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing.
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organization.
• Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems.
• Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience.
• Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.

Skills

SRE experience

Distributed systems

Cloud native architectures

Observability

Go or Python

Incident management

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across the Ads ecosystem, including ad serving, auctions, and billing. You will partner with engineering leaders to improve reliability and scalability, while shaping the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit.

You will design platforms and tooling to boost reliability and developer productivity at scale, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor engineers across teams.