Hiring: Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads Company: Reddit, Inc. Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:05:23 Target Skills & Keywords : Cloud Native, Design System, Linux, Rust About the job Experience: •8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems. Required Skills: •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. •Architect for Scale •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. •Reduce Operational Risk •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. •Drive Automation •Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails •Incident Management •Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented. •Influence Engineering Standards •Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company. •Mentor and Multiply Impact •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. •What We're Looking For Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!