Senior SRE Lead: Observability, Scale & Reliability

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

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Senior SRE leader to own production reliability for large-scale, globally distributed services. You will mentor a team of SREs, drive decisions for service mesh architectures, and establish ownership models and SLOs to improve incident response and availability.

The role emphasizes security collaboration, roadmap development for observability and automation, and balancing hands-on coding with people management and career growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading a small-to-mid-size team with hands-on contributions.
• Strong Unix/Linux knowledge and networking fundamentals.
• Production-grade coding in Go, Python, Java or similar.
• Proven SRE best-practices adoption, SLOs and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures.
• Establish production ownership models, incident response protocols, and SLOs.
• Develop strategic roadmaps for observability and automation to boost reliability.
• Balance technical contributions with people management, career development, and performance reviews.
• Foster reliability culture and knowledge sharing within the team and across the org.
• Lead security initiatives with security and compliance teams to protect data and meet regulations.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Cloud Native

Observability

Go/Python/Java

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Senior SRE leader to own production reliability for large-scale, globally distributed services. You will mentor a team of SREs, drive decisions for service mesh architectures, and establish ownership models and SLOs to improve incident response and availability.

The role emphasizes security collaboration, roadmap development for observability and automation, and balancing hands-on coding with people management and career growth.