Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Reddit
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and 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
- 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 distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures
- Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices
- Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across a modern distributed system stack
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
Desirable
- Experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems
- Deep understanding of reliability challenges associated with ad-serving, real-time auctions, budget pacing, campaign delivery, measurement, attribution, or billing systems
- Experience operating high-QPS, low-latency services where latency directly impacts business outcomes
- Experience establishing reliability programs that deliver meaningful, measurable business outcomes
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems
- Familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, Spark, Flink, BigQuery, or similar large-scale data platforms
- Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering organizations
- Experience supporting machine learning inference or recommendation systems at scale
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 teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit's advertising ecosystem
- We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives across the Ads organization and help shape the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit
- Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing
- Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organization
- Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems
- Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events
- Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience
- Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams
- Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments
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 100,000 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 52M daily users and more than 50B monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddits 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,m 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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