StaffSiteReliabilityEngineer-SiteExperience
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“Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Site Experience at Reddit. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, distributed systems, automation. Lead Reliability Engineering. Drive reliability, scalability, operational excellence”
What You'll Achieve.
improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence; design systems that remain highly available and performant; reduce incidents and improve service health; improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails; ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented
Industry & Context.
solving complex reliability challenges; troubleshoot complex issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, operating large scale distributed systems, programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar, 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
What You'll Do.
Lead Reliability Engineering
operational excellence
Improve performance and resiliency
Guide architectural decisions
Reduce Operational Risk
Build proactive mitigation strategies
Build systems that improve deployment safety
Lead complex incident response
Drive blameless postmortems
Influence Engineering Standards
Define and champion best practices
Mentor and Multiply Impact
Help shape reliability culture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner closely with product and infrastructure teams; Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning; collaboration and communication skills; influence technical direction across teams; Mentor and Multiply Impact; Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization
Communication Scope
collaboration and communication skills
Full 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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. 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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the largest and most influential platforms on the internet. 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
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