Senior SRE, Site Experience
Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at Reddit, ensuring performance and resilience at internet scale.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
- Drive projects to advance reliability, scalability, and performance
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks
- Build automated solutions for operational work
- Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong experience supporting high traffic, user-facing production environments
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar
- Strong understanding of observability systems
Nice to have
- Experience designing highly-available systems
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability
- Contributions to open source software
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Reddit focuses on enhancing the reliability and performance of user-facing systems, ensuring they operate smoothly under high traffic. This role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and programming languages like Go or Python, along with a strong grasp of observability tools. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in SRE or related fields, particularly in managing large-scale environments. The position involves collaboration across teams to drive engineering standards and improve operational practices.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 11, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page November 11, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 78% of 82 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $165,000 across 37 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 68.1% of 188 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; Envoy appears in 0.5% of 188 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior SRE, Site Experience role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior SRE, Site Experience role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Cassandra, ClickHouse, Envoy, Go, Grafana, Kafka.
- 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, Site Experience role at Reddit.
From the original posting
This role is fully remote. Reddit has a flexible first workforce
The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient.
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences.
This is a highly technical role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can lead cross-functional projects to deliver concrete business results across the organization.
What you’ll do:
- Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
- Drive projects to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems. Own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
- Architect for Scale
- Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to ensure Reddit is highly available and performant under massive global load. Lead initiatives to improve redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
- Reduce Operational Risk
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.
- Build Automated Solutions
- Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
- Drive Adoption of Engineering Standards
- Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
- Mentor and Multiply Impact
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.
What We’re Looking For
- 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 one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
- Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated 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 technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
- Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.
- Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities.
- Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.
Pay Transparency:
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.
Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.