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TikTok · 3 weeks ago

Site Reliability Engineer - Video Platform - USDS

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$113K/yr - $178K/yr

TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer for their Video Platform team within the USDS. The role involves ensuring the reliability of TikTok's video system, managing production systems, and optimizing global infrastructure to provide excellent experiences for billions of users.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Responsible for overall reliability of TikTok's video system, including video publishing and distribution

Perform lifecycle management of production systems including change management, service deployment, operations and emergency response

Monitor the system and respond to incidents to maintain system service level agreement (SLA), review and follow up all production incidents

Perform capacity management of compute, storage and network bandwidth resources to ensure system stability and save infrastructure costs

Provide strong support during big events to ensure the system is capable of consuming a large volume of Internet traffic

Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure

Qualification

Programming CProgramming C++Programming JavaProgramming PythonProgramming C#Programming GoNetworking knowledgeMicroservice architectureContainer technologyCloud services AWSCloud services GoogleCloud services AzureOpen source systems LinuxOpen source systems MySQLOpen source systems MongoDBOpen source systems RedisOpen source systems ELKProblem-solvingTeamwork skillsSelf-motivated

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience

Programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C# or Go

Preferred

Extensive knowledge of networking, operation system, database system and container technology

Good understanding of every aspect of microservice architecture, and hands on experience in troubleshooting in large scale distributed systems

Hands on experience in common open source systems such as Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and ELK

Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services is a plus

Passionate, self-motivated and good teamwork skills

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

H1B Sponsorship

TikTok has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (979)

2024 (601)

2023 (387)

2022 (322)

2021 (133)

2020 (72)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Leadership Team

N Ali Mohamed

CEO

Blake Chandlee

VP Global Business Solutions

Recent News

Entrepreneur.com

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2026-01-24

Technology - WSJ.com

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2026-01-24

BBC

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