Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Site Experience

• Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale, ensuring every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real-time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient. • Partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit's most business-critical experiences. • Take on a highly technical leadership role solving complex reliability challenges and influencing engineering culture across the organisation.

• Bring 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems. • Demonstrate strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. • Have strong experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments. • Bring deep understanding of one or more of: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud-native architectures. • Have experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices. • Demonstrate strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar. • Bring a strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. • Have experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimisation. • Demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.

• Have experience operating systems at internet-scale traffic volumes. • Bring experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms. • Have familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies. • Have experience with CDN optimisation, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure. • Bring contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities. • Have experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.

• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user-facing systems and services, improving performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. • 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. • 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. • Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling, building systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails. • Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams, driving blameless postmortems, identifying root causes, and ensuring sustainable long-term fixes are implemented. • Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams, helping shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar.

• Access global benefit programmes that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support. • Receive family planning support. • Access gender-affirming care. • Use mental health and coaching benefits. • Join the Group Personal Pension Scheme with employer match. • Access private medical and dental scheme. • Benefit from income replacement programmes. • Use the Bike to Work scheme. • Enjoy flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off. • Take generous paid parental leave.

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