Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads
$217K–$304K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 8, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Remote - United States - Experience
- 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering for Reddit’s critical user-facing systems, improving availability, performance, scalability, and operational practices at internet scale.
What you'll do
- Drive reliability and performance improvements across user-facing services and guide architecture for availability, failover, capacity, and traffic management.
- Reduce operational risk through automation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and lasting reliability improvements.
- Set reliability standards and mentor engineers across SRE and software engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
- Experience supporting high-traffic user-facing production environments and designing highly available systems.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
- Experience with observability and improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
Nice to have
- Experience operating internet-scale systems; Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, or Redis.
Pay
$217,000 — $303,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka
AI focus
AI may be used to record, transcribe, and summarize interviews in select roles and locations; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.
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