SRE Tech Lead Manager, Product Reliability

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

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Lead to own production reliability across large-scale, globally distributed systems. You’ll mentor SREs, drive architectural decisions for service mesh architectures, and implement observability, automation, and security initiatives.

You will shape production ownership models, incident response, and SLOs while balancing leadership with hands-on engineering to strengthen system reliability and resilience across all

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience leading a small to mid-size team with hands-on contributions
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems and networking fundamentals
• Proficiency in production-grade code in Go, Python, Java or similar languages
• Experience establishing SRE best practices across organizations
• Experience developing and maintaining SLOs and error budgets

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Site Reliability Engineers
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed 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, including career development and evaluations
• Foster a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
• Lead security initiatives to safeguard assets with security/compliance teams

Skills

Distributed systems

SRE leadership

Unix/Linux internals

Networking fundamentals

Go

Python

Java

SLOs and error budgets

Observability/monitoring

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Lead to own production reliability across large-scale, globally distributed systems. You’ll mentor SREs, drive architectural decisions for service mesh architectures, and implement observability, automation, and security initiatives.

You will shape production ownership models, incident response, and SLOs while balancing leadership with hands-on engineering to strengthen system reliability and resilience across all