Site Reliability Engineer: Scale, Automate, and Optimize Infra

TikTok

Sydney

On-site

AUD 150,000 - 200,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

TikTok is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to ensure reliability and efficiency of its core systems in a large-scale environment. The role focuses on capacity, stability, and automated operations across distributed services.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in Linux, storage, networking, and modern programming languages, plus experience with Kubernetes, containers, and data technologies. Opportunity to shape governance and security across global platforms.

Qualifications

  • Solid programming fundamentals and software knowledge.
  • Understanding of Linux OS, storage, and networking.
  • Familiarity with Python, Go, or Java.
  • Knowledge of design patterns and coding principles.

Responsibilities

  • Reliability: ensure core infrastructure reliability and stability, set up standards and SOPs.
  • Troubleshoot issues, perform bottleneck analysis, and manage HA architecture upgrades.
  • Build automated operation solutions for large-scale systems.
  • Design and implement software platforms and monitoring frameworks for efficient governance of SOA.
  • Budget and monitor costs; optimize delivery standards across millions of CPUs.
  • Design and implement a data protection plan and IDC for compliance.

Skills

Software fundamentals
Linux OS, storage, networking
Python/Go/Java
Design patterns & coding principles

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related

Tools

KV / Table / Graph databases
Redis / MySQL / MongoDB
Kafka / MQ
Kubernetes / Docker / Spark / Flink / RPC / Service Mesh

Job description

TikTok is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to ensure reliability and efficiency of its core systems in a large-scale environment. The role focuses on capacity, stability, and automated operations across distributed services.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in Linux, storage, networking, and modern programming languages, plus experience with Kubernetes, containers, and data technologies. Opportunity to shape governance and security across global platforms.

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