Staff Site Reliability Engineer: Lead Global Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with employer match

Generous time off

Professional development

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, and operational excellence across APIs, feeds, and real-time experiences.

This leadership role focuses on solving complex reliability challenges, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers to elevate the company's reliability culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational practices.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar.
• Strong observability skills: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience leading incident response and reliability improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering for user-facing systems at internet scale.
• Architect for scale with emphasis on availability and performance.
• Reduce operational risk by identifying systemic reliability bottlenecks.
• Drive automation to remove repetitive operational work and improve deployment safety.
• Lead complex incident response efforts and drive blameless postmortems.
• Influence engineering standards for SLIs/SLOs, capacity, and release engineering.
• Mentor engineers and raise the operational excellence bar across teams.

Skills

SRE leadership

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Observability

Incident management

Reliability engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, and operational excellence across APIs, feeds, and real-time experiences.

This leadership role focuses on solving complex reliability challenges, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers to elevate the company's reliability culture.