Senior Staff SRE, Site Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of reliability across Reddit’s systems, teams, and practices.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to enhance Reddit’s long-term reliability strategy.

• Oversee complex, cross-organizational initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and performance for essential user-facing systems.

• Engage with APIs, content delivery, feeds, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.

• Direct the team’s long-term roadmap and harmonize investments across various technical domains.

• Foster and expand cross-functional partnerships within product and infrastructure engineering.

• Establish and advocate for best practices in reliability engineering, including SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity.

• Mentor engineers through technical leadership, guidance, and collaborative learning.

• Identify systemic reliability issues and spearhead engineering efforts that result in lasting improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or similar roles managing top-tier large-scale distributed systems.

• Proven expertise in leading intricate, cross-organizational engineering programs from the design phase to launch.

• Experience in evolving company-wide reliability strategies and steering long-term roadmaps and investments across technical domains.

• Demonstrated ability to cultivate enduring partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams.

• In-depth knowledge of designing reliable and resilient systems.

• Proficient in diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking.

• Experience in enhancing observability to reveal systemic risks.

• Strong foundation in software engineering and sound operational judgment.

• History of developing engineers at various levels and raising engineering standards across teams.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and contemporary deployment platforms is a plus.

• Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies is advantageous.

• Experience in CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure is a plus.

• Contributions to open source software or involvement in technical communities are a bonus.

• Experience leading large-scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.

• 401k with Employer Match.

• Global benefit programs tailored to your lifestyle, encompassing workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.

• Family Planning Support.

• Gender-Affirming Care.

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off.

• Generous Paid Parental Leave.

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units.

• Potential commission based on the position offered.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunity to opt out of interview recording, transcription, and summarization.