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TikTok · 3 days ago

Site Reliability Engineer, Compute - USDS

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$137K/yr - $259K/yr

3+ years exp

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. The Site Reliability Engineer role involves building and maintaining large-scale, fault-tolerant systems, collaborating with software engineering teams, and ensuring system performance and scalability.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain automation procedures to maximize system efficiency and minimize human intervention

Work closely with software engineering teams to design, deploy and operate elements to ensure that systems are functionally robust

Ensure system scalability to handle growth in web traffic and data

Implement monitoring tools and set up metrics to keep track of system health and performance

Participate in on-call rotations, assist with incident management, and diagnose, resolve, and prevent production issues

Conduct performance tests to find and address system bottlenecks

Collaborate with teams across the organization to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringAutomation proceduresCloud systemsLinux operating systemsProgramming languagesMonitoring toolsContainer orchestrationProblem-solving skillsStrategic thinkingCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 3+ years of experience

Proven work experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar software engineering role

Passionate about operational excellence through methodical automation and engineering processes using programming languages such as Go, Python and/or any other languages

Experience in network architecture, database modeling, cloud systems and large-scale distributed systems

Strong understanding of Linux operating systems and open-source technologies

Excellent problem-solving skills, strategic thinking, and a strong ability to debug complex systems

Exceptional communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams

Preferred

Knowledge of monitoring tools and methodologies (such as Prometheus, Grafana)

Experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent

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

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