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Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.\n\nInfluence Engineering StandardsDefine and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.\n\nMentor and Multiply ImpactProvide 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.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.\nStrong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.\nStrong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.\nDeep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.\nExperience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.\nStrong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.\nStrong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.\nExperience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.\nDemonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.\nNice to Have\nExperience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes.\nExperience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.\nFamiliarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.\nExperience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.\nContributions to open source software or participation in technical communities.\nExperience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.\nWhy Join Reddit?\nYou’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform.\nBenefits\nGlobal Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support\nFamily Planning Support\nGender-Affirming Care\nMental Health & Coaching Benefits\nPrivate Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits\nPersonal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution\nCycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes\nFlexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off\nGenerous Paid Parental Leave\nPay Transparency:\nThis job posting may span more than one career level.\nIn 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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary 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.\nThe base salary range for this position is:\n$217,000—$303,900 USD\nIn select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.\nDuring the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.\nReddit 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. 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