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Staff SRE, Ads

Reddit, Inc.

Amsterdam

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Staff SRE, Ads

Reddit seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across the Ads organization. The role involves improving scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity for Reddit's advertising platform. Requires 8+ years of SRE experience and deep distributed systems knowledge.

RemoteFull-timePrincipalSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure Engineering

Staff SRE, Ads

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RemoteFull-timePrincipalSite Reliability Engineering

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Remote: work remotely from anywhere in the UK, the Netherlands or Ireland

Experience Required

8 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff: 8+ years experience

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Site Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringDistributed SystemsNetworkingLinuxCloud Native ArchitecturesObservabilityMetricsLoggingTracingAlertingGoPythonSLOsAutomationIncident ManagementPerformance Optimization

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationMentoringTechnical LeadershipProblem Solving

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

Advertising TechnologyAd-servingReal-time AuctionsBudget PacingCampaign DeliveryMeasurementAttributionBilling SystemsKubernetesCloud InfrastructureApache KafkaClickHouseApache SparkApache FlinkBigQueryMachine Learning InferenceRecommendation Systems

Key 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.
•Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing.
•Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
•Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.

Staff SREAdsReliabilityDistributed SystemsGoPythonKubernetesCloud InfrastructureRemoteNetherlands

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationMentoringTechnical LeadershipProblem Solving

Key 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.

•Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing.

•Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.

•Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.