Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Remote, Scale

Reddit

United States

Remote

USD 233,000 - 326,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs
Family Planning Support
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Job summary

Reddit is hiring a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with engineering leadership to define long-term strategies, drive cross-organizational programs, and shape a resilient, scalable platform across APIs, feeds, and real-time services.

You will mentor engineers, champion best practices for SLIs/SLOs, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to align technical and business

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
  • Experience leading complex cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
  • Experience evolving reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
  • Proven ability to build partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
  • Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems designs with strong observability practices and fault analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Lead reliability initiatives for user-facing systems at internet scale.
  • Shape and execute long-term reliability roadmap and engineering strategy.
  • Drive cross-functional programs across APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, and real-time services.
  • Define and champion best practices around SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and release engineering.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate the team’s reliability expertise and judgment.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering
Cross-functional leadership
Observability
Engineering leadership
Systems design

Tools

Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Envoy
Kafka
ClickHouse
Cassandra
Redis

Job description

Reddit is hiring a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with engineering leadership to define long-term strategies, drive cross-organizational programs, and shape a resilient, scalable platform across APIs, feeds, and real-time services.

You will mentor engineers, champion best practices for SLIs/SLOs, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to align technical and business

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