This role pays more than
85%
of similar roles. Most pay
$154,323–$214,125
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$229k
versus about
$184k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has
77 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,400
across 77 roles with salary data.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads joins the Ads Reliability team to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the advertising ecosystem. This role involves building and operating highly available services for ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems. You will design infrastructure, develop automation tools, and enhance observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging. Key responsibilities include participating in on-call rotations, leading incident response efforts, performing root cause analysis, and driving SRE best practices like SLIs, SLOs, and capacity planning to reduce operational toil. The ideal candidate possesses experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and backend programming in Go. You will collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle to ensure advertiser-critical user journeys, such as campaign creation and ad delivery, remain stable while scaling to meet increasing traffic and demand.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.
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