Site Reliability Engineer: Scale, Automation

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

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. You’ll design automation, monitor health, and contribute to on-call incident management across cross-functional teams.

Based in Seattle area, you’ll apply Go and Python skills, work with Linux, cloud platforms, and container tech like Docker and Kubernetes to scale services while upholding reliability and performance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, or related field with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven SRE/Systems Engineer experience.
• Automation focus with Go or Python.
• Experience with Linux and open-source technologies.
• Experience with cloud and large-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and cross-team collaboration.

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 systems are robust.
• Ensure system scalability to handle growth in web traffic and data.
• Implement monitoring tools and set up metrics to track system health and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident management, and postmortems.
• Conduct performance tests to identify bottlenecks and address them.
• Collaborate with teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.

Skills

Go

Python

Linux

Cloud systems

Distributed systems

Monitoring

Incident management

SLIs/SLAs/SLOs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture invites a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. You’ll design automation, monitor health, and contribute to on-call incident management across cross-functional teams.

Based in Seattle area, you’ll apply Go and Python skills, work with Linux, cloud platforms, and container tech like Docker and Kubernetes to scale services while upholding reliability and performance standards.