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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads

Reddit· SRE & Program Mgmt
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San Francisco, CA$190.8k - $267.1kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale Reddit Ads systems; focus on reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence across ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems.
  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity.
  • Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems.
  • Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents.
  • Collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations.
  • Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
  • Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.
  • Help define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing.
  • Scale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
  • Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
  • Strong cross-functional collaborations skills to lead and influence operational excellence.
  • Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Strong software engineering skills in languages like general-purpose backend languages like Go.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
  • Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response.
  • Experience driving automation and operational improvements.

Skills

Required:Site Reliability EngineeringGoObservability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
  • 4+ months paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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