Senior Site Reliability Engineer Scalable Automated Systems

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team in San Jose, CA. You will develop automation, enhance scalability, and collaborate with software teams to keep systems robust and reliable.

Join a mission-critical environment with modern tooling; participate in on-call rotations, optimize performance, and help define SLOs/SLIs/SLAs across services. Full-time, on-site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven work experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar software engineering role.
• Proficient knowledge of high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, and Shell script).
• Experience in network architecture, database modeling, cloud systems and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems and open-source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation procedures to maximize system efficiency and minimize human intervention.
• Work closely with software engineering teams to design, deploy and operate elements to ensure that systems are functionally robust.
• Ensure system scalability to handle growth in web traffic and data.
• Implement monitoring tools and set up metrics to keep track of system health and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, assist with incident management, and diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues.
• Conduct performance tests to find and address system bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Linux

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team in San Jose, CA. You will develop automation, enhance scalability, and collaborate with software teams to keep systems robust and reliable.

Join a mission-critical environment with modern tooling; participate in on-call rotations, optimize performance, and help define SLOs/SLIs/SLAs across services. Full-time, on-site.