Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 233,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Tme

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking 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 identify operational challenges and drive durable improvements across Reddit.

This deeply technical leadership role requires shaping long-term strategies, standards, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliability, resilience, and performance as Reddit scales globally.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs.
• Strong background in reliability engineering and scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to build partnerships with product and infrastructure teams.
• Proven track record in improving observability and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.
• Shape long-term reliability strategy and roadmaps across domains.
• Partner with engineering leadership to drive durable improvements.
• Define and champion best practices around SLIs/SLOs, capacity, and release engineering.
• Develop engineers through technical leadership and mentorship.

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

The base salary range for this position is:

• $232,500-$325,500 USD

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