Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Site Experience
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Reddit, Inc.Internet technology
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary$232,500 — $325,500 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating best-in-class large-scale distributed systems.
- Required Skills
- KubernetesPrometheusDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bring 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Lead complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
- Evolve company-wide reliability strategy and guide long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
- Build sustained partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of reliable and resilient system designs and drive their adoption.
- Diagnose complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking.
- Improve observability to expose systemic risks.
- Apply strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment.
- Develop engineers at every level and raise engineering standards across teams.
- Nice to have: experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and 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, or global infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Build understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices, and partner with engineering leadership to evolve long-term strategy.
- Lead complex cross-organizational programs advancing reliability, scale, and performance for critical user-facing systems.
- Guide the team’s long-term roadmap and align investments across technical domains.
- Own cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering and align teams on reliability priorities.
- Define and champion practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
- Develop and mentor engineers and strengthen the team’s engineering judgment and reliability expertise.
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