Staff SRE, Ads
Lead reliability initiatives for Reddit's Ads organization, shaping the future of Ads infrastructure with a remote-first team.
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Interviews may be recorded and summarized by AI, with options for candidates to opt out.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Reddit focuses on enhancing the reliability and scalability of the Ads platform, overseeing initiatives that span ad serving, auctions, and reporting. This role requires extensive experience with distributed systems and a strong grasp of observability practices, alongside programming skills in languages like Go or Python. Ideal candidates will have a background in Site Reliability Engineering with a proven track record in high-traffic environments, particularly those related to advertising technology. The position offers an opportunity to influence critical infrastructure decisions within a dynamic team dedicated to operational excellence.
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- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff SRE, Ads role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff SRE, Ads role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Spark, Go, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Flink, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff 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 teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit's advertising ecosystem.
We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives across the Ads organization and help shape the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit.
What you’ll do:
- Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing.
- Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organization.
- Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems.
- Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events.
- Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience.
- Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.
What We’re Looking For:
- 8+ 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 distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
- Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
- Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across a modern distributed system stack.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
Nice to Have:
- Experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems.
- Deep understanding of reliability challenges associated with ad-serving, real-time auctions, budget pacing, campaign delivery, measurement, attribution, or billing systems.
- Experience operating high-QPS, low-latency services where latency directly impacts business outcomes.
- Experience establishing reliability programs that deliver meaningful, measurable business outcomes
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, Spark, Flink, BigQuery, or similar large-scale data platforms.
- Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering organizations.
- Experience supporting machine learning inference or recommendation systems at scale.
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 Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Personal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution
- Cycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes
- 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.
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