Staff SRE, Ads

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains: ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement and billing
• ▹Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability and operational excellence
• ▹Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions on revenue-critical systems
• ▹Design and build platforms, tooling and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response
• ▹Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions
• ▹Establish reliability metrics for advertiser-critical journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auctions, reporting, attribution and billing
• ▹Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams
• ▹Influence roadmap planning to ensure reliability is incorporated into product and infrastructure investments

Requirements

• ▹8+ 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
• ▹Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems and cloud-native architectures
• ▹Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices
• ▹Strong understanding of observability: metrics, logging, tracing and alerting
• ▹Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python or similar
• ▹Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management and performance optimization
• ▹Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across a modern distributed system stack
• ▹Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to influence technical direction across teams

Nice to have

• ▹Experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems

Soft skills

About the company

Reddit is a community of communities with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, making it one of the internet's largest sources of information. Its Ads organization powers the advertising platform that lets advertisers reach highly engaged communities.