Which countries can I work from remotely at Reddit?

Current openings list remote eligibility in the United States, Canada (British Columbia and Ontario), the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Reddit also keeps offices open in cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, and Sydney, so remote employees near a hub can drop in whenever they like.

What support does Reddit give remote employees for their workspace?

You can expense furnishing your home office, and if you prefer working outside the house Reddit covers coworking space costs up to $200 per month. There is also up to $100 per month toward your phone bill.

Which benefits stand out most at Reddit?

Birthing parents get 22 or more weeks of paid leave and non-birthing parents up to 16 weeks, backed by a $25,000 lifetime family planning benefit through Carrot. On top of unlimited vacation, everyone gets a paid wellness day each month plus company-wide Reddit Global Days Off, and a $5,000 annual wellness reimbursement that covers everything from fitness to language classes.

Does Reddit publish salary ranges?

Yes for US roles. Reddit shares base salary ranges on all US-based job postings regardless of state, using standardized pay bands by function, level, and location. Compensation also includes restricted stock units for all employees and commission for sales roles.

Which teams hire remotely and which are office-based?

Engineering, data science, product, and security roles are posted overwhelmingly as remote, especially in the US and Canada. Sales and some revenue roles are tied to office hubs such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam, so expect an in-office component there.

Which countries can I work from remotely at Reddit?

Current openings list remote eligibility in the United States, Canada (British Columbia and Ontario), the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Reddit also keeps offices open in cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, and Sydney, so remote employees near a hub can drop in whenever they like.

What support does Reddit give remote employees for their workspace?

You can expense furnishing your home office, and if you prefer working outside the house Reddit covers coworking space costs up to $200 per month. There is also up to $100 per month toward your phone bill.

Which benefits stand out most at Reddit?

Birthing parents get 22 or more weeks of paid leave and non-birthing parents up to 16 weeks, backed by a $25,000 lifetime family planning benefit through Carrot. On top of unlimited vacation, everyone gets a paid wellness day each month plus company-wide Reddit Global Days Off, and a $5,000 annual wellness reimbursement that covers everything from fitness to language classes.

Does Reddit publish salary ranges?

Yes for US roles. Reddit shares base salary ranges on all US-based job postings regardless of state, using standardized pay bands by function, level, and location. Compensation also includes restricted stock units for all employees and commission for sales roles.

Which teams hire remotely and which are office-based?

Engineering, data science, product, and security roles are posted overwhelmingly as remote, especially in the US and Canada. Sales and some revenue roles are tied to office hubs such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam, so expect an in-office component there.

Staff SRE, Ads

Fully Remote

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Location: Reddit has a flexible first workforce. Don't live near our office? No worries: you can work remotely from anywhere in the UK, the Netherlands or Ireland.

The Ads organization powers Reddit's advertising platform, enabling advertisers to reach highly engaged communities while helping Reddit grow its business. The reliability of our Ads systems directly impacts advertiser success, revenue generation, and user experience.

The Ads Reliability team partners closely with Ads Engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across Reddit's advertising ecosystem.

We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives across the Ads organization and help shape the future of Ads infrastructure at Reddit.

What you’ll do:

Lead reliability initiatives across multiple Ads domains including ad serving, auctions, targeting, reporting, measurement, and billing.
Partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency across the Ads organization.
Drive architecture reviews and influence technical decisions impacting critical revenue-generating systems.
Design and build platforms, tooling, and automation that improve reliability and developer productivity at scale.
Participate in on-call rotations, lead complex incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional response efforts during major production events.
Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term solutions that improve platform resilience.
Establish reliability metrics around advertiser-critical user journeys such as campaign creation, ad delivery, auction participation, reporting, attribution, and billing.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
Influence roadmap planning and ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product and infrastructure investments.

What We’re Looking For:

8+ 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.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
Good programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across a modern distributed system stack.
Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Nice to Have:

Experience supporting advertising technology platforms or other large-scale revenue-critical systems.
Deep understanding of reliability challenges associated with ad-serving, real-time auctions, budget pacing, campaign delivery, measurement, attribution, or billing systems.
Experience operating high-QPS, low-latency services where latency directly impacts business outcomes.
Experience establishing reliability programs that deliver meaningful, measurable business outcomes
Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems.
Familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, Spark, Flink, BigQuery, or similar large-scale data platforms.
Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering organizations.
Experience supporting machine learning inference or recommendation systems at scale.

Benefits

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
Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
Private Medical and Dental Scheme
Income Replacement Programs
Bike to Work scheme
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness

Health Insurance

Medical insurance through Blue Shield, Kaiser, and Cigna for employees and dependents

Dental Insurance

Coverage for employees and dependents

Vision Insurance

Eye exams, glasses, and contacts

Life Insurance

Life and AD&D coverage up to the lesser of annual salary or $250,000

Disability Insurance

Reddit covers 100% of short-term and long-term disability premiums

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Pre-tax flexible spending account for healthcare expenses.

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Reddit contributes $2,000 per year

Mental Health Benefits

Mental health and coaching benefits available to all employees.

Gender Affirming Care

Coverage for gender-affirming medical care.

Pet Insurance

Pet insurance coverage for employees.

Fitness Stipend

$5,000 annual wellness reimbursement covering fitness, books, hobbies, language classes, and more

Wellness Programs

Monthly paid wellness day plus broad wellness reimbursement

Financial

401(k) / Retirement Plan

Traditional and Roth 401(k) options

401(k) Match

100% match up to $3,000, then 25% thereafter, up to $7,000 in annual company contributions

Equity / RSUs

RSUs for all employees, 4-year vesting (25% per year)

Performance Bonus

Performance-based bonus; sales roles also receive commission

Time Off

Unlimited PTO

Unlimited vacation, plus Reddit Global Days Off and a monthly paid wellness day

Unlimited Sick Days

Unlimited sick time, separate from vacation

Company Shutdown Days

Reddit Global Days Off when the whole company disconnects together, plus monthly global wellness days

Paid Holidays

Paid company holidays.

Remote & Equipment

Home Office Stipend

A home office workspace stipend included in Reddit's standard benefits.

Coworking Allowance

Up to $200/month for coworking space membership

Company Offsites / Retreats

Snoosweek, a company-wide week to collaborate on passion projects

Family & Care

Fertility Benefits

Reddit's careers page lists a $25,000 lifetime maximum family planning benefit.

Parental Leave

More than four months of paid parental leave, listed on Reddit's careers page alongside family planning funds.

Adoption Leave

Up to $30,000 for adoption and surrogacy expenses, plus 16 weeks paid bonding leave

Caregiver Policy

Reddit offers up to 12 weeks of paid family medical leave for employees caring for ill family members.

Professional Growth

Learning & Development Budget

Up to $2,500 annually for tuition reimbursement on classes, courses, or conferences

Conference Attendance

Funded attendance at industry conferences for professional development.

Mentorship Program

Internal mentorship and leadership training programs for career development.

Culture & Perks

Employee Resource Groups

Eleven active ERGs including Ability, Allyship, Black People Reddit, LGBTQ Snoo, Trans@Reddit, Women Eng, and Women in Product

Team Events & Social Budget

Company-sponsored outings, happy hours, and family events.

Job Description

What you’ll do:

What We’re Looking For:

Nice to Have:

Benefits

Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness

Financial

Time Off

Remote & Equipment

Family & Care

Professional Growth

Culture & Perks

Tech Stack

JavaScript & Libraries

Frameworks

Databases

Infrastructure

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