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🏢 About Reddit
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
🎯 The Role
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.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Advance Reddit’s Reliability Strategy
Apply Deep Expertise at Global Scale
Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
Shape the Future of Reliability
Build Strategic Partnerships
Influence Engineering Standards
Elevate the Team
📌 Required Qualifications
10+ 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 evolving company-wide reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.
Proven ability to build sustained partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams to align technical and business priorities.
Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems designs, with experience adapting them to organizational needs and driving adoption.
Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking, and improving observability to expose systemic risks.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment, with a record of developing engineers at every level and raising engineering standards across teams.
⭐ Desirable Experience
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
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
