SRE Tech Lead Manager — Observability, Reliability & Scale

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 208,800 - 438,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in the United States seeks a senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a distributed systems team. You will own production reliability, drive observability and automation across a large-scale service mesh, and mentor engineers while shaping incident response and SLO practices.

This role combines hands-on coding in Go, Python, or Java with strategic architecture decisions and team leadership, focusing on reliability, security, and scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading a small to mid-size team with hands-on technical contributions.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux internals and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency in production-grade code in Go, Python, Java or similar languages.
• Proven track record of establishing 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.
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale service mesh architectures.
• Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response protocols, and SLOs.
• Develop strategic roadmaps for observability and automation initiatives.
• Balance technical contributions with people management responsibilities.
• Foster a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership & mentorship

Unix/Linux internals

Go/Python/Java

SRE best practices

SLOs & error budgets

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in the United States seeks a senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a distributed systems team. You will own production reliability, drive observability and automation across a large-scale service mesh, and mentor engineers while shaping incident response and SLO practices.

This role combines hands-on coding in Go, Python, or Java with strategic architecture decisions and team leadership, focusing on reliability, security, and scalable operations.