Senior SRE, Site Experience
Core
Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and resilient interactions across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, and real-time systems.
Role type
Senior SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Builds
High-availability, performant user experiences for Reddit's global user base
Domain
Internet-scale social media platform infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures, Go, Python, observability (metrics, logging, tracing), SLOs, automation, incident management, performance optimization
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, modern deployment platforms, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, open source contributions
Technologies
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis
Responsibilities
Drive projects to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems; Architect for scale by improving redundancy, graceful degradation, and capacity planning; Reduce operational risk by identifying systemic risks and building mitigation strategies; Build automated solutions for deployment safety and incident response; Drive adoption of engineering standards around reliability and operational maturity; Mentor engineers and shape reliability culture
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
