Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Reddit is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Infrastructure SRE team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in distributed systems and architecture to enhance the reliability and performance of Reddit's engineering platforms and services. This role is pivotal in ensuring system resilience, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering teams in designing and developing resilient and highly performant systems at scale.
• Identify and build capabilities into foundational Infrastructure and Platform services.
• Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
• Identify and engineer away risk across Reddit’s systems.
• Automate repetitive, manual, or risky tasks.
• Build tools and integrate systems to support Reddit’s evolution.
• Diagnose and fix network, system, and service-level issues.
• Practice sustainable incident response, and drive structural improvement with blameless postmortem.
• Share on-call responsibilities.
• Observe and improve performance, reduce cost, and improve the experience for millions of users.
• Contribute upstream changes to the open source projects we use.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a development-focused DevOps role.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go and Python preferred).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems development (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, Loki).
• Experience with the development and operation of high-traffic backend systems.
• Demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code.
• Troubleshooting skills that span applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and containers.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills.

Reddit offers:

• Pension Savings plan
• Medical Plan
• Short term sickness benefits
• WIA excess and WGA gap insurance
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off