Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Reddit
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ 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
- Good understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures
- Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response
- Experience driving automation and operational improvements
What the job involves
- 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 to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit’s advertising ecosystem
- We help build and operate highly available services that drive revenue and maintain advertiser trust. We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the critical systems behind Reddit Ads
- Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems
- Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents
- Collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations
- Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling
- Help define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing
- Scale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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