Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

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 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 Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner with engineering leadership to identify foundational operational challenges, define comprehensive long‑term strategies to address them, and lead complex engineering programs that turn those strategies into durable improvements across Reddit.

This is a deeply technical leadership role for someone who can anticipate systemic reliability challenges, shape long‑term engineering strategy, and mobilize teams across the organization to deliver lasting change at internet scale.

What you’ll do:

• Advance Reddit’s Reliability Strategy
  • Build an understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices. Partner with engineering leadership to evolve our long‑term strategy and drive the next stage of how Reddit builds and operates reliable services.
• Apply Deep Expertise at Global Scale
  • Bring firsthand insight in operating the world’s largest platforms, and adapt and extend them to solve Reddit’s unique technical and business challenges.
• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
  • Lead complex, cross‑organizational programs advancing reliability, scale, and performance for critical user‑facing systems across APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging, and real‑time experiences.
• Shape the Future of Reliability
  • Guide the team’s long‑term roadmap, setting direction and aligning investments across domains to build resilience, unlock scale, and enable innovation.
• Build Strategic Partnerships
  • Own and grow cross‑functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering, aligning teams on shared reliability priorities and shaping the investments that keep Reddit resilient as it scales.
• Influence Engineering Standards
  • Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
• Elevate the Team
  • Develop engineers at every level through technical leadership, mentorship, and shared learning. Strengthen the team’s engineering judgment, reliability expertise, and ability to deliver with confidence.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating best‑in‑class large‑scale distributed systems.
• Expertise leading complex, cross‑organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
• Experience evolving company‑wide reliability strategy and guiding long‑term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
• Proven ability to build sustained partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
• Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems designs, with experience adapting them to organizational needs and driving adoption.
• Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking, and improving observability to expose systemic risks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment, with a record of developing engineers at every level and raising engineering standards across teams.

Nice to Have

• 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.

Benefits:

• 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
• Gender‑Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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/ .

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:$232,500—$325,500 USD

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