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TikTok · 5 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - USDS

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$119K/yr - $259K/yr

5+ years exp

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate security infrastructures and support cross-functional teams. The role involves maintaining scalable systems, improving automation, and ensuring system reliability and incident response.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Work with infrastructure, product and platform engineering teams on operating and deploying software platforms, capacity planning and launch reviews throughout the whole lifecycle of services

Maintain sustainable reliability and scalability of software systems by improving automation to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health

Consistently evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve system reliability and release velocity

Practice sustainable incident response and postmortem

Qualification

GoPythonC/C++RustUnix/LinuxInfrastructure-as-codeAWSAzureGCPKubernetesTerraformAnsibleSaltStackChaos engineeringAIML technologiesSoft skills

Required

BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or relevant majors with 5+ years of working experience

Experience in programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general purpose programming languages but not limited to: Go, Python, C/C++ or Rust

Experience with Unix Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond

Experience in analyzing and debugging production issues at scale

Experience and understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts, approaches, methods, and tooling

Preferred

Hands on experience with large cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP

Familiarity with infrastructure and provisioning tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and SaltStack

Secure infrastructure in a distributed system with automation or practice chaos engineering

Experience with two or more of the following areas: web application development, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, mobile application development or security software development

Use of AIML technologies to build SRE assistants to automate tasks; diagnose and remediate events; knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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

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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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