[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Reddit

Role Description

This role is remote friendly. 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 influence engineering culture across the organization.

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
  • Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user-facing systems and services.
  • Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.
• Architect for Scale
  • Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load.
  • Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Reduce Operational Risk
  • Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure.
  • Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.
• Build Automated Solutions
  • Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling.
  • Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Incident Management
  • Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams.
  • Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.
• Influence Engineering Standards
  • Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
• Mentor and Multiply Impact
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams.
  • Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience supporting high traffic, user-facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
• Strong 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.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off