AI Infra SRE Lead — Global, Fault-Tolerant Scale

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 416,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a Senior SRE to own production reliability for state-of-the-art Recommendation and Search services. You will design, implement, and operate scalable systems across global data centers, with focus on observability, automation, and incident response.

Join a team delivering highly available internet-scale infrastructure in a fast-paced, standards-driven environment; strong Linux/Networking and programming skills required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related field; 5+ years of related work experience.
• SRE experience with large-scale systems deployment, high reliability and scalability.
• Familiar with Linux and networking.
• Experience programming in Python, Perl, Go, or C/C++.
• Designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiar with CI/CD procedures and environments.
• Strong communication, ownership and drive.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Recommendation and Search systems, from design to launch, deployment and refinement.
• Deliver tools to improve reliability and scalability; automate operations and improve R&D efficiency.
• Build availability of large-scale services deployed across global data centers.
• Plan, manage and optimize cloud resources to meet SLA for large-scale clusters.
• Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health.
• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.

Skills

SRE

Linux

Networking

Python

Go

C/C++

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Ownership

Communication

Education

BS in CS or related

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks a Senior SRE to own production reliability for state-of-the-art Recommendation and Search services. You will design, implement, and operate scalable systems across global data centers, with focus on observability, automation, and incident response.

Join a team delivering highly available internet-scale infrastructure in a fast-paced, standards-driven environment; strong Linux/Networking and programming skills required.