Site Reliability Engineer Graduate (Global SRE) - 2027 Start

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Software Engineer Graduate (Global SRE) in San Jose to own the reliability of our large-scale advertising systems and help design reliability architecture. This is a 2027 start role suitable for graduates with CS backgrounds and programming experience in Python/Go/C/C++/Java.

You will design, implement, and optimize disaster recovery solutions, manage capacity, and build monitoring and SLO tools while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems and IP networking.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
• Strong analytical skills, ownership, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of TikTok’s global advertising systems and participate in reliability architecture design.
• Design, implement, validate and optimize global disaster recovery solutions for advertising systems; lead DR preparedness and incident response.
• Manage and plan infrastructure capacity for advertising systems to scale with business growth.
• Develop reliability platforms and engineering tools including monitoring, alerting, SLO management, risk governance, and resource management.

Skills

Unix/Linux

IP networking

Python

Go

C

C++

Java

Ownership & communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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@2026 TikTok

Technology

Software Engineer Graduate (Global SRE) - 2027 Start

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A45516A

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Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of TikTok’s global advertising systems, participate in the design of reliability architecture, and ensure high availability of large-scale advertising systems.
• Design, implement, validate, and continuously optimize global disaster recovery (DR) solutions for the advertising systems, and lead disaster recovery preparedness and incident response.
• Manage and plan infrastructure capacity for the advertising systems, ensuring resources scale efficiently with business growth while continuously improving infrastructure utilization through performance optimization.
• Develop reliability platforms and engineering tools for the advertising systems, including monitoring, alerting, SLO management, risk governance, and resource management.

The monetization technology team works on building and running large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. SREs keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, ensuring our users have the best experience possible. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems, IP networking.
• Experience programming in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, C, C++, or Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a strong sense of ownership, and excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in SRE of ads/recommendation systems.
• Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• 1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• 2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• 3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an \"Always Day 1\" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request