Staff SRE, Site Experience
Lead reliability initiatives for Reddit's Ads organization as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on improving systems and mentoring engineers.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Interviews may be recorded and summarized by AI, with options to opt out.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Ads at Reddit, the individual will lead initiatives to enhance the reliability and scalability of the advertising infrastructure, focusing on critical areas like ad serving and auction systems. Key skills include extensive experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and programming in languages such as Go or Python. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over eight years in SRE or related fields, particularly those familiar with high-traffic environments and advertising technology. The role offers an opportunity to influence technical direction and mentor engineers within a dynamic team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago — first seen on Joblaze June 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page November 11, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff SRE, Site Experience 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, Site Experience 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 Staff 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 Staff 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 leadership 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
- Drive complex, cross-organizational programs 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.
- Shape the Future of Reliability
- Define and drive long-term roadmaps for a domain of ownership within the team, turning ambitious reliability goals into strategic investments that build resilience, unlock scale, and enable product innovation.
- Build Strategic Partnerships
- Own and grow cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering, aligning teams on shared reliability priorities and shaping the investments that keep Reddit resilient as it scales.
- Eliminate Systemic Risks
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Drive structural improvements that address root causes, eliminate recurring failures, and prevent entire classes of incidents.
- Shape Automation Strategy
- Define the team’s approach to automation, identifying new opportunities and reusable patterns that make it easier to automate deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails
- Influence Engineering Standards
- Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
- Elevate the Team
- Develop engineers at every level through technical leadership, mentorship, and shared learning. Strengthen the team’s engineering judgment, reliability expertise, and ability to deliver with confidence.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating best-in-class large scale distributed systems.
- Expertise leading complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps to prioritize broad strategic reliability investment.
- Proven ability building cross-functional partnerships to align business priorities and facilitate effective technical collaboration.
- Expertise using and improving observability systems to expose failure modes, accelerate diagnosis, and answer complex questions about system behavior.
- Expertise troubleshooting complex issues across system, infrastructure, and networking.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, sound operational judgment, and effective collaboration practices across teams.
Nice to Have
- 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.
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
- Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
- Private Medical and Dental Scheme
- Income Replacement Programs
- Bike to Work scheme
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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.
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