Staff SRE, Ads

• Provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives across the Ads organisation, helping shape the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit. • Partner closely with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit's advertising ecosystem. • Work on critical revenue-generating systems where reliability directly impacts advertiser success, revenue generation, and user experience.

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

• Have experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems. • Bring deep understanding of reliability challenges associated with ad-serving, real-time auctions, budget pacing, campaign delivery, measurement, attribution, or billing systems. • Have experience operating high-QPS, low-latency services where latency directly impacts business outcomes. • Have experience establishing reliability programmes that deliver meaningful, measurable business outcomes. • Bring experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems. • Have familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, Spark, Flink, BigQuery, or similar large-scale data platforms. • Have experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering organisations. • Bring experience supporting machine learning inference or recommendation systems at scale.

• Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing. • Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organisation. • Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems. • Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale. • Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations, and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events. • Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience. • Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing. • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams. • Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.

• 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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