Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

Location: Remote - United States; other location: San Francisco, CA, United States.

Base salary: $232,500–$325,500 USD per year, with potential equity and, depending on the position, commission.

Company

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

What you will do

• Advance Reddit’s long-term reliability strategy across systems, teams, and engineering practices.
• Lead complex, cross-organizational programs improving reliability, scale, resilience, and performance for APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging, and real-time systems.
• Define long-term roadmaps, investments, reliability standards, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.
• Diagnose complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking, and improve observability to expose systemic risks.
• Build partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering to align technical and business priorities.
• Mentor engineers at every level and raise engineering judgment and reliability standards across teams.

Requirements

• 10+ 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 evolving company-wide reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
• Proven ability to partner with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
• Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient system design, including adapting designs to organizational needs and driving adoption.
• Expertise diagnosing failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking, and improving observability.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment, with experience developing engineers and raising engineering standards.

Nice to have

• 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 work with a flexible-first workforce.
• Healthcare benefits, income replacement programs, and U.S. 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 in select roles; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.

Hiring process

• Interview recordings and related personal information may be collected to evaluate an application for employment or an independent contractor role.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.