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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Reddit

Reddit

Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted 6+ months ago

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet.

As a Site Reliability Engineer on Reddit’s Infrastructure team, you’ll use your knowledge of operating distributed systems to improve the consistency, reliability, and performance of our growing ecosystem of services. You’ll also use your development experience to contribute to the internal Infrastructure Product that all of Reddit Engineering uses to develop, deploy, and operate their services.

Join us and help build the future of Reddit!

Responsibilities

  • Advise: Work with engineering teams in designing and developing systems that are resilient and highly performant at tremendous scale
  • Amplify: Contribute to the development our internal Infrastructure Product, which is used by Reddit engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate their services
  • Automate: Build tools and systems to support the operation of our infrastructure and services
  • Diagnose: Draw on your knowledge of distributed systems to identify and fix network, system, and service-level issues
  • Optimise: Observe and improve performance, reduce cost, and improve the experience for millions of users

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a Development focused DevOps role.
  • Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Rust
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud systems
  • Experience with the development and operation of high-traffic backend systems
  • A demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimise code
  • Troubleshooting skills that span applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems
  • Strong working knowledge of Linux
  • Excellent communication and collaborative skills

Nice-to-haves

  • While not required, familiarity with any of these is a big plus!
  • Experience working in an environment that applies Infrastructure-as-code principles
  • Exposure to a Configuration Management System (Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc)
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-code processes (via Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
  • Docker or Kubernetes in a production setting
  • Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform

Benefits:

  • Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical and Dental Scheme
  • Life Assurance, Income Protection
  • Workspace benefit for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off