[Hiring] Senior 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 Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner with engineering leadership to identify foundational operational challenges, define comprehensive long-term strategies to address them, and lead complex engineering programs that turn those strategies into durable improvements across Reddit.

This is a deeply technical leadership role for someone who can anticipate systemic reliability challenges, shape long-term engineering strategy, and mobilize teams across the organization to deliver lasting change at internet scale.

What you’ll do:

• Advance Reddit’s Reliability Strategy
• Build an understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices.
• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve our long-term strategy and drive the next stage of how Reddit builds and operates reliable services.
• Apply Deep Expertise at Global Scale
• Bring firsthand insight in operating the world’s largest platforms, and adapt and extend them to solve Reddit’s unique technical and business challenges.
• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
• Lead complex, cross-organizational programs advancing reliability, scale, and performance for critical user-facing systems across APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.
• Shape the Future of Reliability
• Guide the team’s long-term roadmap, setting direction and aligning investments across domains to build resilience, unlock scale, and enable 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.
• 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

• 10+ 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 evolving company-wide reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
• Proven ability to build sustained partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
• Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems designs, with experience adapting them to organizational needs and driving adoption.
• Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking, and improving observability to expose systemic risks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment, with a record of developing engineers at every level and raising engineering standards across teams.

Nice to Have

• 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

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• 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
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

The base salary range for this position is: $232,500 — $325,500 USD.