SRE Tech Lead - Cloud Infrastructure

TikTok; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Technical Infrastructure SRE leader to grow and manage a team responsible for a scalable, reliable infrastructure platform. You will be hands-on while guiding engineers and collaborating with data science, product, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, architecture optimization, and automation across compute/storage/database and related systems to support a fast-growing global user base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python or Go programming.

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable infrastructure platform systems.
• Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members and project peers.
• Communicate cross-functionally to drive engineering efforts.
• Lead innovation and bring in new ideas and technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Golang

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation

Education

Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

HDFS

Object storage

Redis

MySQL

MongoDB

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker/Containers

AIops

Spark

Service Mesh

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.

Be responsible for the basic engineering construction of byte infrastructure products & components, focusing on infrastructure O&M architecture optimization, automated O&M platform research and development, data and intelligent O&M. Through the methodology of software engineering and digital intelligence, O&M, around the O&M requirements of infrastructure products & components, built a layered and systematic O&M platform to solve the problem of ultra-large-scale cluster O&M management. (Goals) To provide stable, efficient, and low-cost serverless infrastructure facilities for Mid-Platform & Business.We aim to be the leading SRE team across the industry.

• - Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable and reliable Infrastructure Platform systems.
• - Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
• - Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.
• - Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
• - Lead the team's innovation efforts, bring in new ideas and technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 1. Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 2. Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software development or systems engineering.
• 3. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or Golang

Preferred Qualifications

• 1. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with data science and infrastructure teams.
• 2. Hands-on in designing, building, scaling, and troubleshooting platform solutions.
• 3. Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
• 4. Experience with compute/storage/database, and relevant system experience with the following: HDFS, Object storage, file storage, KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka. 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.