Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Salary
- $217,000–$303,900 / yr
- Posted
- 172 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live today
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $145,000–$215,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $180k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 89 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $216,700–$303,000 across 89 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ads joins the Site Experience SRE team to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, and scalability across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. Key responsibilities include architecting for scale, reducing operational risk, driving automation, and leading complex incident responses. You will utilize programming skills in Go or Python to manage distributed systems, networking, and Linux environments. The role requires expertise in observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. You will also champion best practices for SLIs, SLOs, and capacity management to ensure high performance across web, mobile, and real-time systems.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Drive reliability, scalability, and performance for critical user-facing systems including APIs, feeds, and real-time experiences.
- Design highly available systems and guide architectural decisions regarding failover, redundancy, and capacity planning.
- Identify systemic risks and build proactive mitigation strategies to reduce incidents and improve service health.
- Build automation and tooling to eliminate repetitive operational work and improve deployment safety.
- Lead complex incident response efforts and drive blameless postmortems to implement sustainable long-term fixes.
- Define and champion company-wide best practices for SLIs, SLOs, and operational maturity.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers to raise the organization's operational excellence bar.
What we're looking for
- 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 one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, or cloud native architectures.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
- Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms (preferred).
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