Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

TikTok; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is expanding its Technical Infrastructure SRE team to Ireland. The team manages the entire infrastructure and applications, ensuring production systems stay stable, scalable, and cost-efficient for a global user base.

We focus on deployments, capacity planning, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, automation, and platform development. Join us to help TikTok grow while maintaining reliable operations across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related major.
• Solid basic knowledge of Linux operating system, storage, and network IO principles.
• Familiar with one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, and Java; knowledge of design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Reliability: Ensure the stability of the company's core infrastructure, high availability and reliability, and SOP processes.
• Reliability: Troubleshooting and locating technical issues; collaborate on capacity planning, performance testing, anomaly analysis, and fault diagnosis/resolution.
• Efficiency: Research and evaluate large-scale system architectures; adopt new tools to improve systems and processes.
• Efficiency: Design and implement operation maintenance platforms for automated, intelligent system maintenance.
• Cost: Develop delivery standards for mass production system scales, budgeting, resource delivery, and capacity assessments.
• Compliance: Design and establish new IDC and data protection plans to meet standards.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Linux

Storage

Network IO

Education

Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related major

Tools

Elastic Search

Job description

Responsibilities

The Technical Infrastructure SRE team is responsible for managing the whole infrastructure and applications. Our mission is to ensure all production systems can support our fast growing world-wide user base as well as keep the entire systems stable, efficient and cost effective. We manage deployments, system capacity, traffic scheduling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, emergency response, automations, operation platforms development, etc.

Our team is full of diversity. We have team members in Singapore and China. Now we are extending our teams to Ireland. We are looking forward to seeing new talents joining our team and together helping TikTok grow.

• Reliability: Ensure the stability of the company's core infrastructure (system high availability and reliability), focus on system performance and capacity, establish O&M (Operation & Maintenance） standards and SOP processes.
• Reliability: Troubleshooting and locating technical issues, collaborate with the technical team to develop and implement system capacity planning, performance testing, anomaly analysis, and fault diagnosis and resolution strategies.
• Efficiency: Research and evaluate large-scale system architectures and technologies, use new tools and technologies to improve existing systems and processes to support business development.
• Efficiency: Design and implement O&M platforms to achieve efficient, automated, and intelligent system maintenance.
• Cost: Develop delivery standards for mass production system scales, from budgeting to resource delivery, to online system capacity assessments, to help the company optimize IT costs.
• Compliance: Design and establish new IDC, design and implement data protection plans to meet standard requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related major.
• Solid basic knowledge of computer software, understanding of Linux operating system, storage, network IO and other related principles.
• Familiar with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Go, and Java. Knowledge of design patterns and coding principles is necessary.
• Familiar with Elastic Search

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with storage, and relevant system experience with the following: KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka.
• Experience with computing & big data, and system experience with the following: Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.