Staff SRE, Ads

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across its Ads organization, focusing on improving the reliability and scalability of its advertising platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
• Experience in high traffic, user-facing production environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems.
• Knowledge of observability systems.
• Programming skills in Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience with SLOs, automation, and incident management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains.
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability and scalability.
• Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions.
• Design and build platforms and automation for reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident investigations.
• Identify reliability risks and drive long-term solutions.
• Establish reliability metrics for user journeys.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Influence roadmap planning for reliability considerations.

Skills

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