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Reddit is hiring a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer for its Site Experience team. The role is fully remote within the United States and is listed as full time. The team works across infrastructure, product engineering and user experience to keep Reddit’s web, mobile, API, feed, media delivery and real-time systems fast, reliable and resilient.
What you will do
- Work with engineering leaders to shape Reddit’s long-term reliability strategy and address operational challenges across systems and teams.
- Lead cross-organizational engineering programs that improve reliability, scale and performance across APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging and real-time services.
- Guide the team’s long-term roadmap and align investments that improve resilience and support growth.
- Build partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering and align teams around shared reliability priorities.
- Set and promote engineering practices for SLIs and SLOs, capacity management, release engineering and operational maturity.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to strengthen engineering judgment and reliability expertise.
What Reddit is looking for
- At least 10 years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure engineering or a related field operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading complex engineering programs from design through launch and shaping company-wide technical strategy and roadmaps.
- Strong collaboration with engineering leadership, product and infrastructure teams.
- Deep knowledge of reliable system design, diagnosing complex application, infrastructure and networking failures, and improving observability.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, operational judgment and a record of mentoring engineers.
Helpful experience
Reddit notes experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms, observability and infrastructure tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra or Redis. CDN and edge reliability, traffic engineering, open-source work, incident response and operational transformation are also useful.
Compensation and benefits
The listed U.S. base salary range is $232,500 to $325,500 USD. Reddit says the role may also be eligible for equity and, depending on the position offered, commission. The posting describes U.S. medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) match, paid time off, parental leave and other global benefits.
Work arrangement: Fully remote within the United States. Employment: Full time. Original posting date: November 10, 2026.
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