Senior SRE, Site Experience (Site Reliability Engineering)

Location: Remote - United States. Other location: San Francisco, California, United States.

Salary: $190,800–$267,100 USD base salary per year, with potential equity and commission depending on the position offered.

Company

Reddit is a large online community platform with more than 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

What you will do

• Lead reliability, scalability, and performance initiatives for user-facing APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time systems.
• Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to improve availability, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning under massive global load.
• Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure, then drive mitigation and engineering improvements.
• Build automation and tooling for safer deployments, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Define and promote standards for reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across SRE and software engineering teams.

Requirements

• 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.
• Deep understanding of at least one of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud-native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or a similar language.
• Strong 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.

Nice to have

• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.
• Open-source contributions or participation in technical communities.
• Experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote role within the United States with a flexible-first workforce.
• Healthcare benefits, income replacement programs, and 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, caregiving, family planning, gender-affirming care, and mental health.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI for select roles; candidates can opt out before scheduled interviews.