Senior Site Reliability Engineer - User Experience

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Global benefits package

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

Reddit 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, and scalability across Reddit’s real-time experiences.

This role is fully remote in the United States. You will drive adoption of SRE best practices, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end reliability improvements from design to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
• 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, Python, or similar.
• 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 to influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience and own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
• Architect for Scale by collaborating with product and infra teams to ensure high availability under massive global load and optimize capacity planning.
• Reduce Operational Risk by identifying systemic reliability bottlenecks and implementing proactive mitigation strategies.
• Build Automated Solutions to eliminate repetitive tasks and improve deployment safety, incident response, and remediation workflows.
• Drive Adoption of Engineering Standards for SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across Reddit.
• Mentor and multiply impact by providing technical leadership and shaping reliability culture across SRE and software teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Linux

Cloud-native architectures

Go

Python

Observability

SLOs

Automation

Incident management

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Redis

Job description

Reddit 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, and scalability across Reddit’s real-time experiences.

This role is fully remote in the United States. You will drive adoption of SRE best practices, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end reliability improvements from design to production.