Platform CI/CD Engineer: Secure Release & Cloud

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a DevOps/SRE professional to design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and deployment workflows across cloud environments. You will collaborate with engineers and assurance partners to keep builds fast, secure, auditable, and compliant by design.

You will implement automated security gates, SBOM tooling, and attestation, manage IAM and secrets, and develop incident playbooks and disaster recovery plans to maintain resilience and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid software engineering skills with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Hands‑on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using systems like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, GCP), with a strong understanding of IAM concepts.
• Practical experience with artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory, Nexus) for container images and language packages.
• Experience integrating security scanning tools (e.g., for dependencies, vulnerabilities, secrets) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with developers and partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD Pipelines: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services, improving reliability, speed, and developer experience while embedding security and compliance checks.
• Secure Supply Chain Management: Implement and manage software supply chain security controls, including SBOM generation and validation, artifact signing and attestation (e.g., SLSA), and provenance tracking to ensure the integrity of the build and release process.
• Automate Policy-as-Code Gates: Integrate and enforce automated security and compliance gates within CI/CD pipelines, such as secrets scanning, dependency risk analysis, license compliance checks, and vulnerability scanning, with fail-safe promotion rules.
• Ensure Auditability and Evidence Collection: Design and operate systems for comprehensive auditability, including immutable change logs, deployment records, and traceable rollbacks. Support internal and external assurance requests by providing clear, auditable evidence.
• Manage Cloud IAM and Secrets: Design and enforce least-privilege access controls in OCI/cloud environments. Implement best practices for role design, key/secrets hygiene, and periodic access reviews to minimize security risks.
• Enhance System Resilience and Disaster Recovery: Align release tooling with Risk, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) requirements. Implement and periodically test backup and restore procedures for critical repositories and pipelines.
• Develop and Maintain Incident Playbooks: Create, document, and rehearse incident response playbooks for build/deploy failures and security events. Lead postmortems and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Design and Maintain Deployment Workflows: Standardize deployment workflows (e.g., blue/green, canary, automated rollout/rollback) in a major cloud environment (OCI preferred).
• Manage Artifact Repositories: Administer artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory) including layout, permissions, retention policies, and housekeeping to ensure build reproducibility and integrity.

Skills

Languages: Python/Go/Java

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud providers (OCI/AWS/GCP)

Artifact repositories

Security scanning in CI/CD

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Artifactory

Nexus

Syft

Grype

SLSA

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a DevOps/SRE professional to design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and deployment workflows across cloud environments. You will collaborate with engineers and assurance partners to keep builds fast, secure, auditable, and compliant by design.

You will implement automated security gates, SBOM tooling, and attestation, manage IAM and secrets, and develop incident playbooks and disaster recovery plans to maintain resilience and