Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Reddit SRE is rapidly innovating and our teams are working to meet the needs of infrastructure and development teams as they evolve our product faster than ever before. 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. We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. 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.

Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Responsibilities:

Advise:

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.

Amplify:

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.

Automate:

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

Diagnose:

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.

Optimize:

Observe and improve performance, reduce cost, and improve the experience for millions of users
Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use

Qualifications

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.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800—$267,100 USD

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