Site Reliability Engineer — Video Platform at Scale

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Holidays

Sick days

Personal time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us ensure the reliability of TikTok’s video system. Based in Seattle, you will maintain production systems, manage deployments, and respond to incidents to keep services online during peak usage.

You will work with a team focusing on microservices, container technologies, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure). Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and automation skills are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical background or equivalent experience.
• Programming experience in C, C++, Java, Python, C# or Go.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall reliability of TikTok’s video system, including video publishing and distribution.
• Perform lifecycle management of production systems including change management, service deployment, operations and emergency response.
• Monitor the system and respond to incidents to maintain system SLA, review and follow up all production incidents.
• Perform capacity management of compute, storage and network bandwidth resources to ensure system stability and save infrastructure costs.
• Provide strong support during big events to ensure the system can handle high traffic.
• Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate operation and optimization of the global infrastructure.

Skills

C

Java

Python

C#

Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical background

Tools

Linux

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

ELK

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us ensure the reliability of TikTok’s video system. Based in Seattle, you will maintain production systems, manage deployments, and respond to incidents to keep services online during peak usage.

You will work with a team focusing on microservices, container technologies, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure). Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and automation skills are essential for this role.