Staff Software Engineer - Site Experience SRE

Reddit•San Francisco, CA

1d•$217,000 - $303,900•Remote

About The Position

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 influence engineering culture across the organization.

Requirements

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 one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
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 Haves

Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes.
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.

Responsibilities

Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience: Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.
Architect for Scale: Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, 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.
Incident Management: Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.
Influence 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.