Senior Staff Software Engineer

Reddit is a community of communities, made up of tens of thousands of them, created, run, and populated by Redditors everywhere. It's a place where people can dive into all kinds of topics and passions. Every day, millions of people around the world use Reddit to find community and belonging.

Reddit is a community of communities, made up of tens of thousands of them, created, run, and populated by Redditors everywhere. It's a place where people can dive into all kinds of topics and passions. Every day, millions of people around the world use Reddit to find community and belonging.

{"responsibilities":["Improve the reliability, stability, and performance of critical services and distributed systems used across Reddit's platform.","Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues in complex, large-scale distributed systems, including multi-regional and multi-cloud solutions.","Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical production systems and lead incident response efforts.","Work with the relevant teams to make product features more performant, reliable, and scalable.","Mentor junior team members and lead by example in software best practices, system design, and operational excellence."],"qualifications":["10+ years of experience in SRE, Production, or Software Engineering roles focused on infrastructure and reliability.","Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).","Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++.","Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).","Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).","Demonstrated ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimize complex production systems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience."],"bonus_points":["Experience with capacity planning, load balancing, and traffic management.","Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and practices.","Contributions to open-source projects or speaking at industry conferences."]}