SRE Tech Lead Manager: Observability & Reliability

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 416,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical 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 USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team of SREs responsible for large-scale, globally distributed services. You will own production reliability, drive observability, and mentor engineers while shaping roadmaps for automation and security.

On-site in Seattle, you will collaborate with product and security teams to implement robust, scalable systems and incident response practices that protect users and data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
• Led small to mid-size teams with hands-on technical work.
• Strong Unix/Linux internals and networking knowledge.
• Proficient in production-grade Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience defining SLOs and error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship 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, performance evaluations, and team growth
• 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 design

SRE leadership

SLOs & error budgets

Observability

Unix/Linux internals

Go/Python/Java coding

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team of SREs responsible for large-scale, globally distributed services. You will own production reliability, drive observability, and mentor engineers while shaping roadmaps for automation and security.

On-site in Seattle, you will collaborate with product and security teams to implement robust, scalable systems and incident response practices that protect users and data.