Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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$ 190800 - 267100
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Job Description
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 open-source 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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:
$190800 - $267100 USD
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 due to a disability you need an accommodation during the interview process please let your recruiter know.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
