About the role
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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
This role is fully remote. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.
The Site 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.
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. 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.
This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can lead cross-functional projects to deliver concrete business results across the organization.
What you’ll do
- Lead Reliability Engineering
- Drive complex, cross-organizational programs to advance reliability, scalability, and performance for user-facing systems. Own execution from design through launch across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences.
- Shape the Future of Reliability
- Define and drive long-term roadmaps for a domain of ownership within the team, turning ambitious reliability goals into strategic investments that build resilience, unlock scale, and enable product innovation.
- Build Strategic Partnerships
- Own and grow cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering, aligning teams on shared reliability priorities and shaping the investments that keep Reddit resilient as it scales.
- Eliminate Systemic Risks
- Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Drive structural improvements that address root causes, eliminate recurring failures, and prevent entire classes of incidents.
- Shape Automation Strategy
- Define the team’s approach to automation, identifying new opportunities and reusable patterns that make it easier to automate deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails