Senior SRE, Site 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 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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

This role is fully remote. Reddit has a flexible first workforce

The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient.

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences.

This is a highly technical role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can lead cross-functional projects to deliver concrete business results across the organization.

What you’ll do:

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
  • Drive projects to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems. Own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
• Architect for Scale
  • Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to ensure Reddit is highly available and performant under massive global load. Lead initiatives to improve redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Reduce Operational Risk
  • Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.
• Build Automated Solutions
  • Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Drive Adoption of Engineering Standards
  • Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
• Mentor and Multiply Impact
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.

What We’re Looking For

• 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 one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as 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 with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing highly-available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.
• Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities.
• Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

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 learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

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The base salary range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

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