Staff SRE: Scale, Reliability & Observability Leader

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical and Dental Scheme

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Group Personal Pension Scheme with Em¬

Bike to Work scheme

Income Replacement Programs

Family Planning Support

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for its critical, user-facing systems at internet scale. This role partners with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, and operational excellence across services such as API, content delivery, and real-time experiences.

You will shape long-term reliability roadmaps, own cross-functional programs, and drive investments to unlock scale and product innovation while mentoring engineers at

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
• Experience defining technical roadmaps to prioritize broad strategic reliability investment.
• Proven ability building cross-functional partnerships to align business priorities and facilitate collaboration.
• Expertise using observability systems to expose failure modes and accelerate diagnosis.
• Strong troubleshooting across system, infrastructure, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale.
• Define long-term roadmaps and drive investments to improve resilience and product innovation.
• Build cross-functional partnerships with product and infrastructure teams.
• Identify systemic risks and implement structural improvements to prevent incidents.
• Champion trends in automation for deployment safety, incident response, and remediation workflows.
• Elevate the team through mentorship and technical leadership.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability

Distributed systems

Software fundamentals

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Redis

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for its critical, user-facing systems at internet scale. This role partners with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, and operational excellence across services such as API, content delivery, and real-time experiences.

You will shape long-term reliability roadmaps, own cross-functional programs, and drive investments to unlock scale and product innovation while mentoring engineers at