[Hiring] Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Reddit

Role Description

This role is fully remote. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

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 lead cross-functional projects to deliver concrete business results across the organization.

• Lead Reliability Engineering: Drive complex, cross-organizational programs to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems. Own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
• Shape the Future of Reliability: Define and drive long-term roadmaps for a domain of ownership within the team, turning ambitious reliability goals into strategic investments that build resilience, unlock scale, and enable product innovation.
• Build Strategic Partnerships: Own and grow cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering, aligning teams on shared reliability priorities and shaping the investments that keep Reddit resilient as it scales.
• Eliminate Systemic Risks: Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Drive structural improvements that address root causes, eliminate recurring failures, and prevent entire classes of incidents.
• Shape Automation Strategy: Define the team’s approach to automation, identifying new opportunities and reusable patterns that make it easier to automate deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Influence Engineering Standards: Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
• Elevate the Team: Develop engineers at every level through technical leadership, mentorship, and shared learning. Strengthen the team’s engineering judgment, reliability expertise, and ability to deliver with confidence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating best-in-class large scale distributed systems.
• Expertise leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
• Experience defining technical roadmaps to prioritize broad strategic reliability investment.
• Proven ability building cross-functional partnerships to align business priorities and facilitate effective technical collaboration.
• Expertise using and improving observability systems to expose failure modes, accelerate diagnosis, and answer complex questions about system behavior.
• Expertise troubleshooting complex issues across system, infrastructure, and networking.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, sound operational judgment, and effective collaboration practices across teams.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support.
• Family Planning Support.
• Gender-Affirming Care.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match.
• Private Medical and Dental Scheme.
• Income Replacement Programs.
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.
• Generous Paid Parental Leave.