Senior Observability & Infra Engineer - Remote

Reddit, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 217,000 - 304,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Paid parental leave

Mental health & coaching benefits

Flexible vacation & volunteer time off

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is hiring an Observability Engineer to advance the platform that runs Reddit's infrastructure. You will work on monitoring, logging, and tracing systems at scale, enabling engineers to understand their deployments and performance.

You'll collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable observability tools built on Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and more. This role emphasizes distributed systems, on-call responsibility, and hands-on software development.

Qualifications

7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software.
Familiarity with distributed systems development and open source tools.
Experience with Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
Strong troubleshooting capabilities for both systems and software.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with software engineers to build and maintain Reddit's infrastructure platform.
Deliver software to improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
Contribute feedback to the technical and strategic direction of eventing at Reddit.
Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process.
Share on-call responsibilities.
Contribute upstream changes to open source projects.