Senior SRE - Compute: Scale, Automation & Reliability

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. You will automate operations, partner with software teams, and drive reliability across services.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, performance tuning, and scalable infrastructure to support massive web traffic. You will work with modern stacks (Go/Python) on Linux, collaborate across teams, and participate in defining reliability targets (SLOs/SLIs/SLAs).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven work experience as an SRE or systems engineer with automation focus.
• Experience with Go/Python and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong Linux and open-source tech understanding.
• Excellent problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation procedures to maximize system efficiency and minimize human intervention.
• Work with software engineering teams to design, deploy and operate robust system components.
• Ensure system scalability to handle web traffic and data growth.
• Implement monitoring tools and set up metrics for system health and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident management, and postmortems.
• Conduct performance tests to identify bottlenecks.
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.
• Foster blameless postmortems and sustainable user support.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Linux

Networking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. You will automate operations, partner with software teams, and drive reliability across services.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, performance tuning, and scalable infrastructure to support massive web traffic. You will work with modern stacks (Go/Python) on Linux, collaborate across teams, and participate in defining reliability targets (SLOs/SLIs/SLAs).