Senior SRE, Ads
Join Reddit as a Senior SRE to enhance the reliability and scalability of our advertising systems in a fully remote role.
Skills & Technologies
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Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Ads at Reddit, the individual will focus on enhancing the reliability and scalability of ad-serving systems while collaborating closely with engineering teams. Key skills include expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and programming in languages like Go or Python. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over five years of experience in high-traffic production environments, particularly those who excel in troubleshooting and automation. The Ads Reliability team plays a crucial role in maintaining advertiser trust and driving revenue growth.
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- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior SRE, Ads role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior SRE, Ads role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: cloud-native architectures, Go, Python, observability platforms, monitoring systems, Incident Response.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior SRE, Ads role at Reddit.
From the original posting
Location: Reddit has a flexible first workforce. Don't live near our office? No worries: you can work remotely from anywhere in the UK, the Netherlands or Ireland.
The Ads organization powers Reddit's advertising platform, enabling advertisers to reach highly engaged communities while helping Reddit grow its business. The reliability of our Ads systems directly impacts advertiser success, revenue generation, and user experience.
The Ads Reliability team partners closely with Ads Engineering to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit’s advertising ecosystem. We help build and operate highly available services that drive revenue and maintain advertiser trust. We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the critical systems behind Reddit Ads.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity.
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems.
- Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents.
- Collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations.
- Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.
- Help define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing.
- Scale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
- Good understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
- Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response.
- Experience driving automation and operational improvements.
Benefits:
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Private Pension plan with Employer-matching
- 100% employer-sponsored group medical plan
- Income Replacement Programs
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.