This role pays more than
94%
of similar roles. Most pay
$161,278–$216,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$260k
versus about
$189k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 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.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads joins the Site Experience SRE team to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. This technical leadership role involves partnering with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. The successful candidate will architect for scale, reduce operational risk through proactive mitigation, drive automation to eliminate repetitive work, and lead complex incident response efforts. Key technical requirements include expertise in distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, and cloud native architectures. Candidates should possess strong programming skills in Go or Python, a deep understanding of observability systems like metrics and tracing, and experience with tools such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, and Redis to ensure high-performance delivery.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.