Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Remote Leader

CurationsLA; California; Remote; USD 233,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits and income replace

401k with employer match

Global benefit programs

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching

Flexible vacation & volunteer time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape long-term reliability strategy and drive durable improvements across Reddit.

You will own cross-functional programs, improve observability, and raise engineering standards while mentoring engineers and building partnerships across product and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability/Infrastructure Engineering or related roles.
• Experience leading complex cross-organizational programs from design to launch.
• Experience evolving reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps across technical domains.
• Proven ability to build partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infra teams.
• Deep knowledge of reliable system designs and driving adoption.
• Experience diagnosing complex failures and improving observability.

Responsibilities

• Advance Reddit’s Reliability Strategy and partner with leadership to evolve long-term plans.
• Lead cross‑organizational programs advancing reliability, scale, and performance for user-facing systems.
• Shape the team’s long-term roadmap and invest across domains to enable growth.
• Build strategic partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering.
• Define best practices around SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and release engineering.
• Develop engineers through mentorship and leadership across teams.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Reliability strategy

Observability

Leadership

Partnerships

Problem diagnosis

Software fundamentals

Operational judgment

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Redis

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape long-term reliability strategy and drive durable improvements across Reddit.

You will own cross-functional programs, improve observability, and raise engineering standards while mentoring engineers and building partnerships across product and infrastructure teams.