Site Reliability Engineer - Scalable Video Platform

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure. You will collaborate with software teams to automate, monitor, and improve service reliability across large-scale systems.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, performance tuning, and cross-functional partnership in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment. The position requires 3+ years of SRE or related experience, strong coding skills (Python/Go/Java),

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

Python

Go

Java

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenStack

Hadoop

Spark

MySQL

Redis

Nginx

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure. You will collaborate with software teams to automate, monitor, and improve service reliability across large-scale systems.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, performance tuning, and cross-functional partnership in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment. The position requires 3+ years of SRE or related experience, strong coding skills (Python/Go/Java),