Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.

. Build an understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $232,500 - $325,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering, with a focus on building reliable and resilient systems. Proven ability to lead cross-organizational engineering programs and develop engineers through mentorship and technical leadership.

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Site Reliability EngineeringCross-Organizational Program LeadershipReliability Strategy DevelopmentKubernetes and Cloud InfrastructureObservability Improvement

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Hard Skills

Distributed Systems DesignCapacity ManagementRelease EngineeringOperational MaturityIncident ResponseTraffic EngineeringCDN OptimizationSystemic Risk DiagnosisSoftware Engineering FundamentalsComplex Failure Diagnosis

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentorshipPartnership BuildingCollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryEnvoyKafkaClickHouseCassandraRedisContainersModern Deployment Platforms

Industry Keywords

Reliability EngineeringOperational TransformationLarge-Scale SystemsReal-Time ExperiencesCross-Functional Partnerships

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CassandraCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKafkaKubernetesOpen SourcePrometheusRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build an understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices
Partner with engineering leadership to evolve Reddit’s long-term reliability strategy
Lead complex, cross-organizational programs advancing reliability, scale, and performance for critical user-facing systems
Work across APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging, and real-time experiences
Guide the team’s long-term roadmap and align investments across technical domains
Own and grow cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering
Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity
Develop engineers through technical leadership, mentorship, and shared learning
Diagnose systemic reliability challenges and lead engineering programs that deliver durable improvements

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems designs
Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking
Experience improving observability to expose systemic risks
Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment
Record of developing engineers at every level and raising engineering standards across teams
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms is nice to have
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies is nice to have
Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure is nice to have
Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities is nice to have
Experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives is nice to have

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
Potential commission depending on the position offered
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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