Staff Site Reliability Engineer: Scale & Reliability Lead

Reddit, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; 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

Private Medical, Dental, and Vision

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering 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, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems and can influence engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years 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 distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Strong programming skills in 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience.
• Architect for Scale and capacity planning with partner teams.
• Reduce Operational Risk by identifying bottlenecks and driving mitigations.
• Drive Automation to eliminate repetitive toil and improve deployment safety.
• Incident Management including blameless postmortems and long-term fixes.
• Influence Engineering Standards around SLIs/SLOs, release engineering, and operational maturity.
• Mentor and multiply impact across SRE and software engineering teams.

Skills

SRE experience

Distributed systems

Go/Python

Observability

Incident management

Automation

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering 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, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems and can influence engineering