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Reddit, Inc.Senior SRE, Site Experience
Reddit operates a massive online platform connecting over 130 million daily active visitors across more than 100,000 active communities. To support this massive global traffic, the…
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Reddit operates a massive online platform connecting over 130 million daily active visitors across more than 100,000 active communities. To support this massive global traffic, the organization is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Site Experience team. This fully remote position operates at the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure, and user experience, ensuring that feeds, APIs, search, and real-time systems remain resilient, fast, and scalable. This technical role…
Job Description
Reddit operates a massive online platform connecting over 130 million daily active visitors across more than 100,000 active communities. To support this massive global traffic, the organization is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Site Experience team. This fully remote position operates at the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure, and user experience, ensuring that feeds, APIs, search, and real-time systems remain resilient, fast, and scalable.
This technical role is ideal for a candidate who enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges and leading cross-functional engineering initiatives. The successful applicant will partner closely with various teams to optimize service availability, manage global capacity, and establish robust operational standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead reliability and scalability projects for user-facing systems across APIs, content delivery, feeds, and search
- Partner with engineering teams to design infrastructure that handles massive global load under high availability
- Identify systemic risks and build proactive mitigation strategies to decrease operational incidents
- Develop automated tooling and systems to improve deployment safety and streamline incident response
- Define and promote engineering standards regarding SLIs, SLOs, and capacity management
- Provide technical mentorship to software and reliability engineering colleagues
Requirements
- At least five years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or managing large-scale distributed systems
- Demonstrated background supporting high-traffic production environments geared toward end users
- Strong proficiency in Linux systems, networking, distributed architectures, or cloud native frameworks
- Programming capabilities in Python, Go, or comparable languages
- Familiarity with observability tools covering logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
Qualifications
- Background designing highly available systems paired with strong operational practices
- Experience utilizing Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, containers, and modern deployment pipelines
- Knowledge of distributed tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Redis, or similar technologies
- Expertise in CDN optimization, edge reliability, or traffic engineering
- Prior contributions to open source software or technical community involvement
- Experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation efforts
Core Skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare medical, dental, and vision benefits alongside income replacement programs
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match
- Global lifestyle programs supporting workspaces, professional growth, and caregiving
- Family planning support and gender-affirming care
- Mental health and coaching programs
- Flexible vacation time and paid volunteer days off
- Generous paid parental leave
- Eligibility to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this role is fully remote.
What is the salary range for this position?
The base salary range spans from $190,800 to $267,100 per year, and the role is also eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units.
How many years of experience are required?
Candidates must have five or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field working with large-scale distributed systems.
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