Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Alien Blue; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 190,800 - 267,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Matching

Flexible Vacation

Paid Volunteer time off

4+ months paid Parental Leave

Job summary

A leading tech company in Chicago is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability and performance of its engineering platforms. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience, strong proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python, and familiarity with Kubernetes. This role includes responsibilities such as designing resilient systems, automating processes, and diagnosing issues. Comprehensive benefits include healthcare, 401k matching, and generous parental leave.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing high-traffic backend systems.
• Ability to debug and optimize code.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and containers.

Responsibilities

• Design systems that are resilient and performant.
• Improve the availability and scalability of services.
• Automate repetitive tasks and build supporting tools.
• Diagnose and resolve system-level issues.

Skills

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering

Proficiency in Go and Python

Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems

Strong troubleshooting skills

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Prometheus

Thanos

Grafana

Vector

Clickhouse

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit SRE is rapidly innovating and our teams are working to meet the needs of infrastructure and development teams as we evolve our product faster than ever before. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Reddit’s Infrastructure SRE team, you’ll use your knowledge of distributed systems and architecture to improve the reliability and performance of Reddit’s engineering platforms and services. We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team will work very closely with the Compute, Traffic, and Observability infrastructure teams. They will own a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale. We’re active users of and contributors to Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector and more.

In this role, you will also take ownership of risk management, ensuring the reliability and performance of our systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, implementing best practices to enhance system resilience. Your expertise will drive proactive measures to maintain uptime and optimize service delivery, making a significant impact on our operational excellence.

Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Responsibilities

• Advising: Work closely with engineering teams in designing and developing systems that are resilient and highly performant at a tremendous scale, and maintaining the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.
• Amplifying: Identify and build capabilities into our foundational Infrastructure and Platform services, which are used by Reddit engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate Reddit.
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
• Identify and engineer away risk across Reddit’s systems.
• Automating: Take repetitive, manual, or risky tasks and automate them out of existence. Build tools and integrate systems to support Reddit’s evolution. Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process.
• Diagnosing: Draw on your knowledge of distributed systems to identify and fix network, system, and service-level issues. Practice sustainable incident response, and drive structural improvement with blameless postmortem. Share on-call responsibilities.
• Optimizing: Observe and improve performance, reduce cost, and improve the experience for millions of users. Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a development-focused DevOps role.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages. We’re predominantly writing code in Go and Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki).
• Experience with the development and operation of high-traffic backend systems.
• A demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code.
• Troubleshooting skills that span applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and containers.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits.
• 401k Matching.
• Workspace benefits for your home office.
• Personal & Professional development funds.
• Family Planning Support.
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days.
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave.
• Paid Volunteer time off.

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is: $190,800–$267,100 USD.

Reddit is a proud equal opportunity employer, committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

How to Apply

Interested in this position? Please submit your resume and cover letter through the application portal.

Locations: OneTrust Chicago, Illinois; Toronto, Ontario.