Senior SRE, Site Experience
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Reddit, Inc.Social media
Location: Remote - United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryThe base salary range for this position is: $190,800 — $267,100 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Required Skills
- PythonKubernetesGoLinuxDistributed SystemsNetworking
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Have experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments.
- Have a deep understanding of one or more of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud-native architectures.
- Have strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Understand observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Have experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Be able to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
- Have strong collaboration and communication skills and be able to influence technical direction across teams.
- Nice to have experience designing highly available systems and experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, or modern deployment platforms.
- Nice to have familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
- Nice to have experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, global infrastructure, or large-scale incident response.
Responsibilities
- Drive reliability, scalability, and performance projects for user-facing systems from design through launch.
- Improve reliability across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
- Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to improve availability and performance under global load.
- Lead initiatives in redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure.
- Build mitigation strategies and engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.
- Automate operational work and build tools for deployment safety, incident response, remediation, and reliability guardrails.
- Define and champion practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and software engineering teams.
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