Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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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 Reddits Infrastructure SRE team youll use your knowledge of distributed systems and architecture to improve the reliability and performance of Reddits engineering platforms and services. We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This team will work very closely with the Compute Traffic and Observability infrastructure teams. They will own a suite of tools for allowing engineers to understand their creations based primarily on opensource solutions at scale. Were 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 crossfunctional 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 Reddits 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 Reddits systems.
- Automate:
- Take repetitive manual or risky tasks and automate them out of existence. Build tools and integrate systems to support Reddits 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 servicelevel issues. Practice sustainable incident response and drive structural improvement with blameless postmortem.
- Share oncall 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 developmentfocused DevOps role.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages. Were 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 hightraffic 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:
- Retirement Savings plan
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
