Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Site Experience

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. This role involves partnering with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business-critical experiences. It is a highly technical leadership position focused on large-scale distributed systems and complex reliability challenges.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 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 distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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 highly available and performant systems 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 to reduce incidents and improve service health
• Drive Automation
• Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling
• Build systems to 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
• Influence Engineering Standards
• Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity
• Mentor and Multiply Impact
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams
• Shape reliability culture and raise operational excellence across the organization

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