Site Reliability Engineer: Scale, Automation & On-Call

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems. You will drive automation, collaborate with software teams, and ensure robust, scalable infrastructure while contributing to blameless postmortems and incident prevention.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, performance testing, and alignment on SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, with a focus on scalable cloud-native architecture and strong Linux/open-source

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven work experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar software engineering role.
• Proficient knowledge of high-level programming languages (Python, Go, Java, and Shell scripting).
• Experience in network architecture, database modeling, cloud systems and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems and open-source technologies.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools and methodologies (Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation procedures to maximize system efficiency and minimize human intervention.
• Work closely with software engineering teams to design, deploy and operate elements to ensure systems are robust.
• Ensure system scalability to handle growth in web traffic and data.
• Implement monitoring tools and set up metrics to keep track of system health and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, assist with incident management, and diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues.
• Conduct performance tests to find and address system bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.
• Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Shell scripting

Linux

Open-source tech

Cloud systems

Large-scale distributed systems

Networking

Monitoring (Prometheus)

Monitoring (Grafana)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems. You will drive automation, collaborate with software teams, and ensure robust, scalable infrastructure while contributing to blameless postmortems and incident prevention.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, performance testing, and alignment on SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, with a focus on scalable cloud-native architecture and strong Linux/open-source