
Senior SRE, Ads
Reddit, Inc.
Senior SRE, Ads
Reddit is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Ads organization to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of advertising systems. The role involves partnering with engineering teams, building infrastructure, and driving SRE best practices. Candidates need 5+ years of experience in SRE or related fields, strong programming skills, and expertise in distributed systems.
Senior SRE, Ads
Reddit is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Ads organization to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of advertising systems. The role involves partnering with engineering teams, building infrastructure, and driving SRE best practices. Candidates need 5+ years of experience in SRE or related fields, strong programming skills, and expertise in distributed systems.
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Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation that improve service reliability and engineering productivity.
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems.
- Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents.
- Collaborate with software engineers throughout the service lifecycle, from design reviews through production operations.
- Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.
- Help define and measure advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, reporting, and billing.
- Scale Ads systems to support continued traffic growth, increased advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.