Staff SRE, Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; 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

Group Pension with Employer match

Private Medical and Dental Scheme

Income Replacement Programs

Bike to Work scheme

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability efforts 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, and real-time services. The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shaping automation and standards to advance reliability as Reddit scales globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability or infrastructure engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading cross-organizational programs from design through launch.
• Defining technical roadmaps to prioritize reliability investments.
• Proven ability to build cross-functional partnerships for collaboration.
• Expertise in observability to expose failure modes and accelerate diagnosis.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting across system, infrastructure, and networking.
• Strong software fundamentals and collaborative delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering initiatives and drive cross-organizational programs for user-facing systems.
• Shape long-term roadmaps for ownership domains to enable product innovation and scale.
• Build and grow partnerships across product and infrastructure teams to align reliability priorities.
• Identify systemic risks and drive architectural improvements to prevent incidents.
• Define automation strategy for deployment safety, incident response, and remediation workflows.
• Champion best practices around SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, and release engineering.
• Mentor engineers and elevate the team's reliability expertise and judgment.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmapping

Partnership building

Observability systems

Troubleshooting large-scale

Collaborative engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Envoy

Kafka

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Redis

CDN technologies

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 Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit's most business critical experiences.

This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can lead cross-functional projects to deliver concrete business results across the organization.

What you'll do:

• Lead Reliability Engineering
  • Drive complex, cross-organizational programs to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems. Own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
• Shape the Future of Reliability
  • Define and drive long-term roadmaps for a domain of ownership within the team, turning ambitious reliability goals into strategic investments that build resilience, unlock scale, and enable product 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.
• Eliminate Systemic Risks
  • Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Drive structural improvements that address root causes, eliminate recurring failures, and prevent entire classes of incidents.
• Shape Automation Strategy
  • Define the team's approach to automation, identifying new opportunities and reusable patterns that make it easier to automate deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• 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

• 8+ 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 defining technical roadmaps to prioritize broad strategic reliability investment.
• Proven ability building cross-functional partnerships to align business priorities and facilitate effective technical collaboration.
• Expertise using and improving observability systems to expose failure modes, accelerate diagnosis, and answer complex questions about system behavior.
• Expertise troubleshooting complex issues across system, infrastructure, and networking.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, sound operational judgment, and effective collaboration practices 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

• 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
• Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme
• Income Replacement Programs
• Bike to Work scheme
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time OffGenerous 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/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$217,000—$303,900 USD

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