SRE Lead & Architect - Observability & Reliability

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 438,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in the United States is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a distributed SRE team responsible for observability, reliability, and fault-tolerance across large-scale services.

You will own production, drive automation, mentor engineers, and partner with security and compliance to safeguard assets while advancing SRE practices and service-level objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience leading a small to mid-size team with hands-on contributions
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux internals and networking fundamentals
• Proficient in production-grade Go, Python, or Java
• Proven track record implementing SRE best practices across engineering organizations
• Experience developing and maintaining SLOs and error budgets

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on building observable, fault-tolerant systems
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures
• Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response protocols, and service level objectives
• Develop strategic roadmaps for observability and automation initiatives that enhance system reliability
• Balance technical contributions with people management responsibilities, including career development and performance evaluations
• Foster a culture of reliability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing within your team and across the organization
• Lead security initiatives to safeguard critical assets, partnering with security and compliance teams to implement robust protocols that ensure data protection and regulatory compliance across all services

Skills

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Unix/Linux internals

Networking fundamentals

Go/Python/Java coding

SRE best practices

SLOs & error budgets

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in the United States is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a distributed SRE team responsible for observability, reliability, and fault-tolerance across large-scale services.

You will own production, drive automation, mentor engineers, and partner with security and compliance to safeguard assets while advancing SRE practices and service-level objectives.