SRE Tech Lead Manager - Scale, Reliability & Strategy

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) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

Paid personal time (PPT)

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer Leader to guide a team responsible for scalable, observable video services. You will influence architectural decisions and drive reliability across a globally distributed service mesh, delivering fault-tolerant platforms for billions of users.

You will balance people management with hands-on coding, shape roadmaps for observability and automation, and lead incident response and security initiatives to

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience running high-availability web services at massive scale with cloud-native architectures and advanced networking.
• Experience in design/development or SRE in video streaming or related services.
• Previous experience leading a small to mid-size team while maintaining significant hands-on contributions.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems internals and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency in production-grade coding in Go, Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Proven track record of establishing and implementing SRE best practices across engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on building observable, fault-tolerant video services with high availability
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures
• Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response protocols, and service level agreements
• 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 trust, continuous learning and 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 and enforcement that ensure data protection and regulatory compliance across all services

Skills

Distributed systems design

High availability

Unix/Linux internals

Networking fundamentals

SRE leadership

Go/Python/Java coding

Cloud-native architectures

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer Leader to guide a team responsible for scalable, observable video services. You will influence architectural decisions and drive reliability across a globally distributed service mesh, delivering fault-tolerant platforms for billions of users.

You will balance people management with hands-on coding, shape roadmaps for observability and automation, and lead incident response and security initiatives to