Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Reddit
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a development-focused DevOps role
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages. We’re predominantly writing code in Go and Python
- Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems
- Familiarity with distributed systems development, bonus if familiar with any of the specific tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki)
- Experience with the development and operation of high-traffic backend systems
- A demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code
- Troubleshooting skills that span applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems
- Strong working knowledge of Linux and containers
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills
What the job involves
- This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Reddit’s Infrastructure SRE team, you’ll use your knowledge of distributed systems and architecture to improve the reliability and performance of Reddit’s engineering platforms and services
- This team will work very closely with the Compute, Traffic, and Observability infrastructure teams
- They will own a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations, based primarily on open-source solutions at scale
- We’re active users of and contributors to Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector and more
- In this role, you will also take ownership of risk management, ensuring the reliability and performance of our systems
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, implementing best practices to enhance system resilience
- Your expertise will drive proactive measures to maintain uptime and optimize service delivery, making a significant impact on our operational excellence
- Work closely with engineering teams in designing and developing systems that are resilient and highly performant at a tremendous scale, and maintaining the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure
- Identify and build capabilities into our foundational Infrastructure and Platform services, which are used by Reddit engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate Reddit
- Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components
- Identify and engineer away risk across Reddit’s systems
- Take repetitive, manual, or risky tasks and automate them out of existence. Build tools and integrate systems to support Reddit’s evolution
- Automate critical aspects of the event driven development process
- Draw on your knowledge of distributed systems to identify and fix network, system, and service-level issues. Practice sustainable incident response, and drive structural improvement with blameless postmortem
- Share on-call responsibilities
- Observe and improve performance, reduce cost, and improve the experience for millions of users
- Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use
Salary benchmarks
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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