Senior SRE, Site Experience

Details

The Site Experience SRE team works at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience to ensure that interactions across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real-time systems are fast, reliable, and resilient.

This fully remote role focuses on leading reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. The position partners with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit's business-critical experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering initiatives for user-facing systems, including API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
• Own execution from design through launch for projects that improve reliability, scalability, and performance.
• 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 that reduce incidents and improve service health.
• Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling.
• Build systems that 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 improve operational excellence across the organization.

Requirements

• 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 of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud-native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
• 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 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

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
• Family planning support.
• Gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
• Generous paid parental leave.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $190,800–$267,100 USD. The role is also eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and may be eligible for a commission depending on the position offered.

Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.