Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services.
Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. Architect for Scale
Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure.
Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health. Drive Automation
Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails Incident Management
Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.
Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.
Requirements
With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences.
experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. Strong
experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures. •
Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. •
Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services. Nice to Have •
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.
Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies. •
Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.
Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives. Why Join Reddit?
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
Experience
What We’re Looking For 8+ years of
Benefits
Gender-Affirming Care
Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
Private Medical and Dental Scheme
Income Replacement Programs Bike to Work scheme
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Contact
For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .
Additional details
It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user
experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient.
This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can influence engineering culture across the organization. What you’ll do:
Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams.
Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.
Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes. •
Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities. •
You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day.