1 month ago
Base Salary
$191k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across advertising systems.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity.
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for critical production systems.
- Conduct root cause analysis and drive corrective actions after incidents.
- Collaborate with software engineers across the service lifecycle from design reviews through production operations.
- Drive adoption of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.
- Define and measure advertiser-critical journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing.
- Scale Ads systems to support traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to lead and influence operational excellence.
- Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong software engineering skills in general-purpose backend languages such as Go.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, incident response, automation, and operational improvements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits.
- 401(k) matching.
- Workspace benefits for a home office.
- Personal and professional development funds.
- Family planning support.
- Flexible vacation and Reddit Global Days Off.
- More than 4 months of paid parental leave.
- Paid volunteer time off.
- U.S.-based employees are offered medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match, vacation time, and parental leave.
- Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI, with an opportunity to opt out before scheduled interviews.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.