Senior Staff SRE — Remote, Lead Reliability at Scale

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Group Pension with Employer match

Private Medical and Dental Scheme

Income Replacement Programs

Bike to Work scheme

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability efforts for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.

You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, and real-time services. The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shaping automation and standards to advance reliability as Reddit scales globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability or infrastructure engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading cross-organizational programs from design through launch.
• Defining technical roadmaps to prioritize reliability investments.
• Proven ability to build cross-functional partnerships for collaboration.
• Expertise in observability to expose failure modes and accelerate diagnosis.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting across system, infrastructure, and networking.
• Strong software fundamentals and collaborative delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering initiatives and drive cross-organizational programs for user-facing systems.
• Shape long-term roadmaps for ownership domains to enable product innovation and scale.
• Build and grow partnerships across product and infrastructure teams to align reliability priorities.
• Identify systemic risks and drive architectural improvements to prevent incidents.
• Define automation strategy for deployment safety, incident response, and remediation workflows.
• Champion best practices around SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and release engineering.
• Mentor engineers and elevate the team's reliability expertise and judgment.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmapping

Partnership building

Observability systems

Troubleshooting large-scale

Collaborative engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Redis

CDN technologies

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability efforts for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.

You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, and real-time services. The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shaping automation and standards to advance reliability as Reddit scales globally.