Senior Site Reliability Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Reddit SRE is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to innovate and improve the reliability and performance of Reddit's infrastructure and services. This role involves working at the intersection of infrastructure and software development, focusing on compute, traffic, and observability teams. You will own tools for engineers to understand their creations, utilizing open-source solutions like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and Vector. Key responsibilities include risk management, collaborating with teams to mitigate risks, enhancing system resilience, and driving proactive measures for uptime and service delivery. The ideal candidate will contribute to building the future of Reddit.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps
  • Proficiency in Go or Python
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems
  • Experience with distributed systems development
  • Debug, fix, and optimize code
  • Troubleshoot applications, networking, and systems
  • Strong Linux and container knowledge
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki
  • Experience with high-traffic backend systems
Perks:
  • Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical and Dental Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Workspace benefit for home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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 Reddit’s Infrastructure SRE team, you’ll use your knowledge of distributed systems and architecture to improve the reliability and performance of Reddit’s 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. We’re 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 Reddit’s 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 Reddit’s systems.
  • Automate
    • Take repetitive, manual, or risky tasks and automate them out of existence. Build tools and integrate systems to support Reddit’s 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. We’re 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:

  • Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical and Dental Scheme
  • Life Assurance, Income Protection
  • Workspace benefit for your home office 
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support 
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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.

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