Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with match

Global benefits

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health benefits

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.

You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit's web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real-time systems. This highly technical role requires hands-on expertise in distributed systems, monitoring, and incident response, and you will guide

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience supporting high traffic, user-facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python.
• Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience: drive projects to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems.
• Architect for Scale: partner with product and infrastructure teams to ensure Reddit is highly available and performant under massive global load.
• Reduce Operational Risk: identify systemic risks and bottlenecks and build proactive mitigation strategies.
• Build Automated Solutions: eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling to improve deployment safety and incident response.
• Drive Adoption of Engineering Standards: define and champion best practices around reliability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and releases.
• Mentor and Multiply Impact: provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Linux systems

Cloud native architectures

Go

Python

Observability

SLOs

Incident management

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Redis

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.

You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit's web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real-time systems. This highly technical role requires hands-on expertise in distributed systems, monitoring, and incident response, and you will guide