5 months ago
Base Salary
$217k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-organizational reliability, scalability, and performance programs from design through launch across user-facing systems.
- Own long-term reliability roadmaps and strategic investments for a domain of responsibility.
- Build partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering to align reliability priorities.
- Identify systemic risks and bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure, and drive root-cause improvements.
- Define automation strategies for deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
- Establish engineering standards for reliability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen team-wide engineering judgment and reliability expertise.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps and prioritizing strategic reliability investments.
- Proven ability to build cross-functional partnerships and align technical work with business priorities.
- Expertise improving observability systems to expose failure modes, accelerate diagnosis, and analyze system behavior.
- Expertise troubleshooting complex issues across systems, infrastructure, and networking.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, operational judgment, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, modern deployment platforms, CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, global infrastructure, large-scale incident response, or operational transformation.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
- Open source contributions or participation in technical communities is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with Reddit’s flexible-first workforce.
- Global benefits covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
- Family planning support, gender-affirming care, mental health and coaching benefits, and private medical and dental coverage.
- Group personal pension scheme with employer match and income replacement programs.
- Bike to Work scheme, flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
- U.S.-based benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match, vacation, and parental leave.
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.