Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads

Reddit; California (MO); On-site; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Private Medical, Dental, and Vision

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead the reliability of user-facing systems and services, ensuring availability, performance, and operational excellence at scale.

You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to design highly available architectures, implement SLOs, incident response, and automation, and mentor engineers to raise the operational bar across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication with influence over technical direction.
• Experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, cloud native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead Reliability Engineering for user facing systems and services.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search and real-time experiences.
• Architect for scale with high availability and performance under massive global load.
• Reduce operational risk and drive proactive mitigation strategies to decrease incidents.
• Drive automation to improve deployment safety, incident response, and remediation workflows.
• Lead complex incident response, drive blameless postmortems, and implement long-term fixes.
• Define and champion reliability practices, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and release engineering.
• Mentor engineers to raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Observability

SLOs/SLIs

Incident management

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

Redis

Job description

What you’ll do:

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.

Architect for Scale

Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.

Reduce Operational Risk

Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.

Drive Automation

Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails

Incident Management

Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.

Influence Engineering Standards

Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.

Mentor and Multiply Impact

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes.
• 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.

Why Join Reddit?

You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform.

Benefits

• 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
• Private Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Personal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution
• Cycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes
• 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/.

The base salary range for this position is:

$217,000—$303,900 USD

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