2 days ago
Base Salary
$191k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead reliability engineering projects for user-facing API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time systems from design through launch.
- Improve availability, performance, scalability, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning under global load.
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure, and drive mitigation strategies.
- Build automation and tooling for deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
- Define and promote practices for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
- Mentor engineers across SRE and software engineering teams and provide technical leadership across cross-functional initiatives.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud-native architectures.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
- Preferred experience designing highly available systems, using Kubernetes and containers, and working with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, or Redis.
- Preferred experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, global infrastructure, open source contributions, or large-scale incident response.
Benefits
- Fully remote position with Reddit’s flexible-first workforce.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, caregiving, and family planning.
- Gender-affirming care and mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
- Some interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI, with an option to opt out.
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.