Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

Salary: $217,000–$303,900 USD annually, plus potential equity and commission depending on the position.

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

• Lead reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence for critical user-facing systems and services.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams on highly available architectures, failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure, then drive long-term mitigation.
• Build automation and tooling for safer deployments, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Lead complex incident response, blameless postmortems, root-cause analysis, and sustainable fixes.
• Define reliability standards around SLIs, SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ 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 and designing highly available systems.
• Deep knowledge 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 with SLOs, automation, incident management, performance optimization, and troubleshooting across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.

Nice to have

• Experience operating systems at internet-scale traffic volumes and leading large-scale incident response or operational transformation.
• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Global benefits covering workspace, professional development, caregiving, and family planning.
• Gender-affirming care, mental health and coaching benefits, and private medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Retirement savings account with matching contribution.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Opportunity to influence reliability and performance for a consumer platform used by millions of people daily.