Senior SRE, Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.

. Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $190,800 - $267,100 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering, focusing on improving system reliability, scalability, and performance in high-traffic environments. Proficient in automation, incident management, and operational excellence with a strong foundation in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

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Site Reliability EngineeringDistributed SystemsKubernetesGo ProgrammingIncident Management

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDistributed SystemsCloud Native ArchitecturesGo ProgrammingPython ProgrammingObservability SystemsSLOsAutomationPerformance OptimizationTraffic Engineering

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationTechnical LeadershipMentorshipInfluencing

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryEnvoyKafkaClickHouseCassandraRedisCDN Optimization

Industry Keywords

High Traffic EnvironmentsOperational ExcellenceIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningRedundancy

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CassandraCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKafkaKubernetesLinuxOpen SourcePrometheusPythonRedisGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale
Drive projects improving reliability, scalability, and performance across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences
Own execution from design through launch
Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to improve availability and performance under massive global load
Lead initiatives involving redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning
Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure
Build proactive mitigation strategies and engineering improvements to reduce incidents and improve service health
Automate repetitive operational work through tooling and systems
Improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails
Define and champion best practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and software engineering teams
Help shape reliability culture and raise operational excellence across the organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ 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
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
Experience designing highly-available systems with strong operational and reliability practices
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms
Familiarity with 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

Comp & perks

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
Equity in the form of restricted stock units
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Generous time off for vacation and parental leave
Flexible first workforce / fully remote work