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We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale the critical systems behind Reddit Ads.\nWhat you’ll do:\nPartner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems.\nDesign, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity.\nImprove observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.\nParticipate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems.\nRun root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents.\nCollaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations.\nDrive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.\nReduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.\nHelp define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing.\nScale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.\nStrong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.\nStrong cross-functional collaborations skills to lead and influence operational excellence.\nGood understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures.\nStrong software engineering skills in languages like general-purpose backend languages like Go.\nDemonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.\nExperience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response.\nExperience driving automation and operational improvements.\nBenefits:\nComprehensive Health benefits\n401k Matching \nWorkspace benefits for your home office\nPersonal & Professional development funds\nFamily Planning Support\nFlexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off\n4+ months paid Parental Leave \nPaid Volunteer time off\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$190,800—$267,100 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. 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