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Reddit, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Reddit, Inc. is a social media platform that acts as a hub for thousands of communities, where users can engage in diverse conversations ranging from breaking news to niche interests. It enables users to post, comment, and vote on content, fostering a vibrant online community. Millions of people globally connect and share their passions on Reddit, creating a dynamic environment for authentic human interaction.

📋 Description

• Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a high-caliber team of infrastructure engineers across Transport and Site Defense. • Partner with senior ICs to define technical strategy for global traffic, edge/CDN, service discovery, gRPC datapath, rate limiting, site defense, and bot detection infrastructure. • Drive multi-quarter execution on high-risk platform migrations, including CDN migration, inter-cluster load balancer adoption, Thrift to GRPC migration, and Site Defense Platform expansion. • Establish clear priority frameworks that balance KTLO, roadmap commitments, incidents, business-critical migrations, and cross-functional asks. • Build and maintain a healthy operational model for critical infrastructure, including on-call quality, SLOs, dashboards, incident response, postmortems, and proactive maintenance. • Collaborate deeply with partner teams across Consumer, Ads, Media Platform, Graph QL, SEO, Web Platform, Info Sec, Compute, ML Platform, Storage, DevEx, Safety/Trust, CIAM, and Site Experience SRE. • Coach engineers through technical design, stakeholder alignment, project planning, execution risk, communication, and career growth. • Create a culture of metrics-driven quality, operational transparency, crisp ownership, and pragmatic technical ambition.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of people-management experience for software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security/abuse-defense engineering teams. • 5+ years of experience building or operating internet-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, cloud platforms, service mesh, edge/CDN, or reliability-critical systems. • Strong technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes, Envoy, Contour, xDS, gRPC, CDNs, DNS, load balancing, cloud networking, rate limiting, service discovery, traffic routing, and observability. • Experience managing operationally critical services, including: on-call, incident response, reliability review, SLOs, and production-change safety. • Proven ability to lead large migrations or platform adoption efforts across many customer teams. • Ability to partner with senior/staff engineers and translate between technical detail, user impact, team capacity, and executive-level risk. • Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills. • High empathy for engineers and internal customers, with the judgment to protect team focus while still serving the business.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave