SRE: AI Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

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

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps engineer to own production systems for globally distributed services. You will work with engineering and product teams to drive observability, automation, and robust infrastructure in a highly secure environment.

This role emphasizes managing large-scale systems, incident response, and continuous improvement. The position requires strong Linux fundamentals, scripting, and experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and IaC

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps or Systems Engineering experience.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and networking knowledge.
• Experience programming in Go, Python, C/C++, or Java.
• Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems and modernizing workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.
• Resilient, capable of navigating ambiguous, restricted environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams across the entire service lifecycle.
• Build tools and automation to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Ensure high availability and performance of multi-region systems.
• Lead complex infrastructure migrations in a restricted compliance environment.
• Drive capacity management and strict SLA/SLO compliance.
• Drive postmortems and root-cause analysis for incident management.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Distributed Systems

CI/CD

Linux

Go/Python/Java

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Service Mesh

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps engineer to own production systems for globally distributed services. You will work with engineering and product teams to drive observability, automation, and robust infrastructure in a highly secure environment.

This role emphasizes managing large-scale systems, incident response, and continuous improvement. The position requires strong Linux fundamentals, scripting, and experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and IaC