Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads
Lead reliability initiatives for Reddit's Ads infrastructure as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in a remote-friendly environment.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Ads at Reddit will lead initiatives to enhance the reliability and scalability of the advertising platform, focusing on critical areas such as ad serving and auction systems. The position requires extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, strong software engineering skills, and a deep understanding of operational excellence practices. This role is ideal for seasoned professionals with a background in Site Reliability Engineering who can effectively collaborate across teams to drive technical improvements. Reddit's Ads organization emphasizes a flexible work environment and values contributions that directly impact revenue
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 26, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 60% of 35 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $210,000 across 22 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 64.8% of 71 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States; Kafka appears in 2.8% of 71 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BigQuery, ClickHouse, Flink, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads role at Reddit.
From the original posting
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.
What you’ll do:
- 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.
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.
- Strong cross-functional collaborations skills to lead and influence operational excellence.
- Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong software engineering skills in languages like general-purpose backend languages like Go.
- 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:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
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