Site Reliability Engineer: Scale & Automate Global Services

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a Role in Seattle to help monitor and maintain availability for core TikTok services, ranging from video playback to recommendations. You will work with a global team to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our distributed systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on management, incident response, and postmortems, with a focus on automating reliability improvements and maintaining high performance across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with 3+ years experience in the deployment and administration of large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration, networking, storage systems, and database systems
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, JavaScript
• Experience in debugging and optimizing code and automate routine tasks
• Experience with Nginx, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka architectures
• Experience in designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems is preferred
• Strong problem solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Gaining a solid understanding of components and services powering TikTok experience
• Maintain services to meet SLAs/SLOs by monitoring availability and performance
• Support site-up issues as part of a global team for reliability and scalability
• Scale systems sustainability via automation and efficiency improvements
• Provide user support, incident responses and postmortems

Skills

C/C++

Java

Python

Go

Ruby

Rust

JavaScript

Distributed systems

Diagnostics & debugging

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Nginx

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenStack

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking a Role in Seattle to help monitor and maintain availability for core TikTok services, ranging from video playback to recommendations. You will work with a global team to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our distributed systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on management, incident response, and postmortems, with a focus on automating reliability improvements and maintaining high performance across the platform.