Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Site Experience

Reddit, Inc.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer leading reliability initiatives for critical user facing systems at Reddit. Driving operational excellence and performance for large-scale distributed systems.

Posted 5/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
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.
Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. 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.
Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails
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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Site Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure Engineeringdistributed systemsnetworkingLinux systemscloud native architecturesGoPythonobservability systemsautomation

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationinfluencetechnical leadershipmentorship