Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

Details

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. The Site Experience SRE team works across 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 is a deeply technical leadership role focused on anticipating systemic reliability challenges, shaping long-term engineering strategy, and mobilizing teams across the organization to deliver lasting improvements.

Responsibilities

Advance Reddit’s Reliability Strategy

• Build an understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices.
• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve Reddit’s long-term reliability strategy.
• Drive the next stage of how Reddit builds and operates reliable services.

Apply Deep Expertise at Global Scale

• Apply firsthand experience operating large-scale platforms.
• Adapt and extend large-scale reliability approaches to address Reddit’s technical and business challenges.

Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience

• Lead complex, cross-organizational programs focused on reliability, scale, and performance.
• Support 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.
• Set direction and align 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.
• Align teams on shared reliability priorities.
• Shape investments that help Reddit remain resilient as it scales.

Influence Engineering Standards

• Define and champion best practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.

Elevate the Team

• Develop engineers at every level through technical leadership, mentorship, and shared learning.
• Strengthen engineering judgment, reliability expertise, and the ability to deliver with confidence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating 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 teams, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
• Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient system design, with experience adapting designs to organizational needs and driving adoption.
• Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking.
• Experience improving observability to expose systemic risks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment.
• 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 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, caregiving support, and other needs.
• 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 $232,500–$325,500 USD. The role is also eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, may be eligible for commission. Final offer amounts depend on skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses or credentials.