Video Platform SRE Lead & Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Leader to oversee a team building a globally distributed, observable and fault-tolerant video processing platform. You will guide architectural decisions, drive observability, and own production reliability initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires deep SRE expertise, leadership skills, and hands-on coding in Go/Python/Java, with on-site collaboration and strong security focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience running high-availability web services at massive scale.
• Experience in video streaming or related services.
• Led a small to mid-size team with hands-on contributions.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux internals and networking.
• Proficiency in production-grade coding languages like Go, Python, or Java.
• Proven track record of establishing SRE best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to an SRE team focused on observable, fault-tolerant video services.
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures.
• Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response, and SLAs.
• Develop roadmaps for observability and automation to improve reliability.
• Balance technical work with people management responsibilities and career development.
• Foster trust, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing within the team and organization.
• Lead security initiatives to safeguard assets, partnering with security/compliance for data protection and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Distributed systems

High availability

Leadership

Unix/Linux

Go/Python/Java

SRE best practices

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Leader to oversee a team building a globally distributed, observable and fault-tolerant video processing platform. You will guide architectural decisions, drive observability, and own production reliability initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires deep SRE expertise, leadership skills, and hands-on coding in Go/Python/Java, with on-site collaboration and strong security focus.