Reddit - Staff SRE, Ads
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, cloud native architectures. • Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices. • Strong understanding of observability systems including 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 with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. • Experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems. • Deep understanding of reliability challenges associated with ad-serving, real-time auctions, budget pacing, campaign delivery, measurement, attribution, or billing systems. • Experience operating high-QPS, low-latency services where latency directly impacts business outcomes. • Experience establishing reliability programs that deliver meaningful, measurable business outcomes • Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems. • Familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, Spark, Flink, BigQuery, or similar large-scale data platforms. • Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering organizations. • Experience supporting machine learning inference or recommendation systems at scale.
Responsibilities
• Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing. • Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organization. • Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems. • Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale. • Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events. • Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience. • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams. • Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.
Benefits
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Private Pension plan with Employer-matching • 100% employer-sponsored group medical plan • Income Replacement Programs • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave • In 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. • During 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. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
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