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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Reddit's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Reddit's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Reddit
- high 90 stale, 3 reposted of 150 open
- Hiring momentum
- 259 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Reddit's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Reddit.
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Ads organization at Reddit, you will collaborate with Ads Engineering to enhance the reliability and scalability of ad-serving systems. Your responsibilities include designing and maintaining infrastructure, improving observability, participating in incident response, and driving automation to reduce operational toil. You will also help define critical user journeys for advertisers and ensure systems can scale with traffic and demand.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Reddit as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ 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
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to lead and influence operational excellence
- Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures
- Strong software engineering skills in general-purpose backend languages like Go
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services
What you get
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
Worth weighing
- Base salary range is $190,800 — $267,100 USD, which may vary based on experience and skills
- Job posting mentions that it may span more than one career level, which could affect role expectations
- Interviews may be recorded and transcribed using AI, which some candidates may find concerning
Summarised from Reddit's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Reddit on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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