Senior Data Infrastructure SRE - Reliability, Scale & Automation

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure SRE team. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of core data services in a large, distributed environment using Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, and messaging systems.

The role includes on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and ongoing automation to reduce toil. You will mentor junior SREs and collaborate with multiple teams across time zones to maintain nonstop availability of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in a programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) for automation and tool development.
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS), and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Incident response and postmortems: Act as an incident commander for critical production issues, guiding the team through triage and resolution.
• SLO/SLA and error budgets: Define, negotiate, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical data services.
• Capacity and cost optimization: Lead initiatives in capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource management.
• Pragmatic automation and AI orchestration: Design and build automation and leverage AI Agents to eliminate operational toil, improve deployment safety, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
• Operational excellence and change management: Uphold and improve our standards for production operations, including runbooks, monitoring, and alerting.

Skills

Go/Python/Bash

Linux/Unix

Networking (TCP/IP DNS)

Distributed systems

Incident response

Mentorship/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Redis

MySQL

Kafka

Flink

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure SRE team. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of core data services in a large, distributed environment using Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, and messaging systems.

The role includes on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and ongoing automation to reduce toil. You will mentor junior SREs and collaborate with multiple teams across time zones to maintain nonstop availability of