Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads
A Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Reddit leads reliability initiatives for critical user-facing systems, focusing on scalability, operational excellence, and incident management across web, mobile, APIs, and real-time systems. Core technologies include distributed systems, observability (metrics/logging/tracing), and languages like Go/Python.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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
Full 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 .
As Reddit continues to scale globally, reliability and performance are more critical than ever. 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 influence engineering culture across the organization.
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.