Staff SRE, Site Experience
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Reddit, Inc.Social media
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeStaff
SalaryThe base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,900 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating best-in-class large scale distributed systems.
- Required Skills
- KubernetesGrafanaPrometheusSoftware Engineering
Requirements
- Bring 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Have expertise leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
- Have experience defining technical roadmaps to prioritize strategic reliability investment.
- Demonstrate the ability to build cross-functional partnerships and align business priorities.
- Have expertise using and improving observability systems to expose failure modes, accelerate diagnosis, and investigate system behavior.
- Be able to troubleshoot complex issues across systems, infrastructure, and networking.
- Bring strong software engineering fundamentals and sound operational judgment.
- Collaborate effectively 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.
- Nice to have: experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-organizational reliability, scalability, and performance programs for user-facing systems from design through launch.
- Own execution across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
- Define long-term roadmaps that turn reliability goals into strategic investments.
- Build cross-functional partnerships with product and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure.
- Drive structural improvements that address root causes and prevent recurring failures and incidents.
- Define automation approaches and reusable patterns for deployment safety, incident response, remediation, and reliability guardrails.
- Champion best practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
- Develop and mentor engineers through technical leadership and shared learning.
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