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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the largest and most influential platforms on the internet. 

As Reddit continues to scale globally, reliability and performance are more critical than ever. The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient.

We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences.

This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can influence engineering culture across the organization.

What you’ll do:

• Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences.
• Architect for Scale
• Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Reduce Operational Risk
• Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health.
• Drive Automation
• Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails
• Incident Management
• Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented.

Influence Engineering Standards

• Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company.

Mentor and Multiply Impact

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures.
• Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure.
• Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities.
• Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives.

Why Join Reddit?

You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform.

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
• Private Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Personal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution
• Cycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Senior Service Reliability Engineer 

As a part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group (GDFT) is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond. 

Our Site Reliability Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering on the promise of a great cloud gaming experience to our customers. We do this by influencing design and operational decisions towards the overall stability of the gaming service. Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments. The successful candidate will be self-directed and able to participate in the way we make decisions at different levels. 

We expect our SREs to have opinions on the state of our service and provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle. We are engaged throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring operational readiness and stability. 

What you'll be doing: 

• Taking a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability 

• Work closely with SRE Management to define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement 

• Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division 

• Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success 

• Act as a voice to represent SRE in the wider organisation 

• Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division 

• Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation 

• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation 

• Demonstrate a high-level of organizational skills and initiative in the role 

What we're looking for:

• Minimum of 7+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role. 

• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. 

• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation. 

Skills & Knowledge:

• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure. 

• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: 

• Python (preferred) 

• Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust 

• In addition, experience with at least 3 of the following topics: 

• Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph) 

• NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) 

• Data aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka) 

• Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability 

• Monitoring & alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), and Incident Management toolsets  

• Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management)  

• Software distribution (Package management and distribution at scale) 

• Configuration management (ansible, saltstack, puppet, chef) 

• Software performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus) 

 What you'll be doing: 

• Taking a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability 

• Work closely with SRE Management to define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement 

• Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division 

• Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success 

• Act as a voice to represent SRE in the wider organisation 

• Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division 

• Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation 

• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation 
  
  
• Demonstrate a high-level of organizational skills and initiative in the role 

Site Reliability Engineer

As a part of Sony Computer Entertainment, the Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group (GDFT) is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond.

Our Site Reliability Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering on the promise of a great cloud gaming experience to our customers. We do this by influencing design and operational decisions towards the overall stability of the gaming service. Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments. The successful candidate will be self-directed and able to participate in the way we make decisions at different levels.

We expect our SREs to have opinions on the state of our service and provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle. We are engaged throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring the operational readiness and stability.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead team technical discussions, especially around ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
• Be involved in creating High Level Designs (HLDs) for new products and platforms
• Mentor junior SRE staff and enable them for success
• Lead incident response and post-mortem activities within your assigned service team
• Work with other Engineers in a cross-functional team to prioritise reliability improvements to address technical debt and toil
• Contribute to code to improve reliability
• Implement automation to reduce ongoing toil

What we're looking for:

• Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure.
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:
• Python (preferred)
• Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust
• In addition, experience with at least 3 of the following topics:
• Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph)
• NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)
• Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka)
• Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability
• Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), and Incident Management toolsets
• Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management)
• Software Distribution (Package management and distribution at scale)
• Configuration Management (ansible, saltstack, puppet, chef)
• S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

Location: Berlin, Germany  Remote Status: Fully Remote (#LI-Remote)

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is a leader in trusted enterprise conversational AI and digital transformation. The world's leading brands use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing uniquely rich data analytics and safety tools to unlock the power of conversational AI for better business outcomes. Fast Company named LivePerson the #1 Most Innovative AI Company in the world.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our globally distributed Data Services team across Europe, Israel, and India. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for both platform evolution and organizational scaling, including establishing and growing our data engineering hub in India.

You will own systems that sit at the core of LivePerson’s near-real-time data platform, streaming, processing, storing, and serving both meta data and content for conversations at massive scale, enabling analytics, AI application, and customer integration. This role combines:

• Deep technical leadership in distributed data systems
• Strong execution across global teams
• Strategic ownership of platform modernization

You Will: Key Responsibilities & Impact

• Lead & Scale a Global Engineering Organization

• Build, lead, and grow a high-performing, distributed team across EU, Israel, and India
• Drive a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence

• Own the Data Platform Implementation and Support

• Evolve the architecture for near-real-time data platforms
• Lead design decisions across streaming, storage, indexing, and access layers
• Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and aligned with long-term product strategy

• Deliver at Scale

• Partner with Product and Architecture to translate vision into executable roadmaps
• Drive delivery of a large fleet of microservices running on Kubernetes (GKE)
• Ensure predictable, high-quality releases across a complex distributed system

• Modernize the Data Stack

• Lead migration from legacy Hadoop/Spark environments to modern platforms such as Databricks
• Balance innovation with reliability and business continuity
• Reduce system complexity while improving performance and cost efficiency

• Drive Operational Excellence

• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs across the data platform
• Own reliability, observability, and incident response processes
• Build scalable on-call and production support models across time zones

• Partner Across the Business

• Act as a key engineering partner to Product, Analytics, and Go-To-Market teams
• Communicate technical strategy, trade-offs, and risks clearly to senior stakeholders
• Align platform capabilities with customer and business outcomes

You Have: Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience & Leadership

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. 
• 10+ years in software/data engineering, with strong backend or data platform experience
• 5+ years managing engineering teams, including globally distributed organizations
• Strong skills in Agile methodologies.
• Strong communication skills (including English language skills) and organizational skills
• Proven ability to hire, grow, and retain high-performing teams

• Technical Depth

• Strong background in distributed systems and large-scale data platforms
• Hands-on experience with:
• Streaming systems (e.g., Kafka)
• NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra)
• Search/indexing systems (e.g., Elasticsearch)
• Deep understanding of real-time vs batch processing trade-offs

• Modern Data Platforms

• Experience with big data frameworks (Spark, MapReduce)
• Exposure to modern data platforms such as Databricks or lakehouse architectures
• Experience driving platform migrations or modernization initiatives

• Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Experience operating microservices in Kubernetes environments (GKE preferred)
• Strong focus on reliability, scalability, and observability

• Communication & Collaboration

• Strong cross-functional communication and highly organized collaboration skills.
• Proven decisiveness in establishing clear ownership boundaries and sticking to decisions to mitigate delays from distributed and unclear boundaries.
• Discipline to document and reference all decisions to ensure the distribution of responsibilities and ownership remains clear and backed by documentation for all stakeholders.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams.

• Nice to Have

• Experience in conversational AI, contact center platforms, or customer engagement systems
• Experience with Java-based microservices (e.g., Spring Boot)
• Familiarity with data integration patterns (connectors, webhooks, event-driven systems)

Our Benefits & Perks

We are committed to supporting the complete well-being, health, financial security, family, and professional growth of our permanent employees.

💰 Financial Security & Growth

• Additional Pension scheme:  deferred pension scheme (LivePerson contributes 20%), ESPP and annual bonus depending on achievements
• Equipment: Internet and Mobile reimbursement
• Development: Access to internal professional development resources.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Time Away & Family Support

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Personal time off 33 days , vacation (28 days) and care days (5)
• Paid Public Holidays.

Volunteering Days:  Use them to make a difference in your community. Whether it's a cleanup, supporting a local initiative or holding an “Ehrenamt”, just let us know! We're here to help you create a meaningful impact.

💻 Workplace Flexibility

• Remote-First Model: Be flexible, work flexibly and from anywhere  - no defined working hours or boundaries with offices in Mannheim and Berlin
• Monthly Connection: Join our monthly connection pizza day in the office!

Why You’ll Love Working Here

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. We're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace, and recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Conversational AI space.

Belonging at LivePerson: Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by US Federal, State, or Local law.

Accessibility Commitment

LivePerson is dedicated to the accessibility needs of our applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Important Candidate Notice

The talent acquisition team at LivePerson has recently been notified of a phishing scam targeting candidates applying for our open roles. Scammers have been posing as hiring managers and recruiters in an effort to access candidates' personal and financial information. The phishing scam is not isolated to only LivePerson and has been documented in news articles and media outlets.

Please note that any communication from our hiring teams at LivePerson regarding a job opportunity will only be made by a LivePerson employee with an @liveperson.com email address. LivePerson does not ask for personal or financial information as part of our interview process, including but not limited to your social security number, online account passwords, credit card numbers, passport information, and other related banking information. If you have any questions and or concerns, please feel free to contact recruiting-lp@liveperson.com

Who we seek:

We are expanding our Solutions Engineering team. We're always looking for top Engineers to join our winning team. This team works closely with innovative companies interested in leveraging BigID’s platform. You will use your knowledge to influence customer decisions, provide insightful solutions, and drive successful proof-of-value implementations. With your potent technical capabilities, critical and creative thinking, and passion for fast-paced problem-solving, be ready to hit the ground running.

We're seeking someone based in Germany, who is bilingual in English and German.

What you’ll do:

• Work with the Sales team as the technical subject matter expert for BigID’s platform during customer calls and presentations
• Use market and technical knowledge to consult on best practices and offer constructive direction for solution architecture and design
• Stay up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products, and services/offerings
• Drive customer success with real-world knowledge and recommendations
• Develop a trusted advisory role with customers, communicating upcoming product changes, enhancements, and serving as an internal voice of the customer
• Work with the post-sales teams to ensure every customer realizes the value of the BigID Platform and continues to contribute to the success of BigID customers

What you’ll bring:

• Interpersonal communication, customer relationship, executive presentation skills
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multitask in a fast-paced startup environment
• Demonstrated ability to address customer needs and provide best practices
• Strong background in Big Data, AI, privacy, data governance, or information security
• Good troubleshooting abilities and a methodical approach
• Ability to describe complex technical concepts to diverse audiences: executives, business stakeholders, and technology practitioners
• Passion for demonstrating solutions and ability to provide technical input during the sales process
• Broad understanding of enterprise data architecture, privacy, and security technologies
• Ability to plan, execute and close out a Proof of Concept with minimal assistance and oversight
• Desire to share knowledge through excellent documentation creation and RFI/RFP responses
• Some prior experience with one or more of the following: RDBMS systems, no-SQL data stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB), Hadoop technologies (such HDFS, Hive, HBase), cloud technologies (AWS EMR, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Azure file and blob storage, etc.)
• Prior experience with Identity and Access Management or Data Loss Prevention tools is a plus
• Proficient in Linux and container framework (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Minimum of 3 years in a pre-sales or consulting role within a multinational environment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline (master’s degree a plus)

What’s in it for you?!

Our people are the foundation of our success, and we prioritize offering a wide range of benefits that make our team happier and healthier.

• Equity participation - everyone shares in our success
• Flexible work arrangements 
• Other compulsory benefits based on country of residence

Our Values:

We look for people who embody our values - Care, Do,Try & Shine.

• Care - We care about our customers and each other
• Do - We do what it takes to make a positive impact
• Try - We try our best and we don’t give up
• Shine - We shine and make it our mission to always stand out

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