Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Recommendation Infrastructure

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us.

Our Recommendation Infrastructure Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.

SREs in our team keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, and create highly automated systems and pipelines.

What You'll Do

1. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Recommendation systems — from system design consulting through to launch reviews, deployment, operation and refinement.
2. Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability and scalability of services, automate operations and improve R&D efficiency.
3. Build availability of large-scale services deployed across global data centers.
4. Plan, manage and optimize cloud resources utilization, ensuring SLA of large-scale clusters.
5. Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health.
6. Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree or above majoring in Computer Science or related fields.
2. At least 2 years of work experience in SRE of large-scale systems deployment with high reliability and scalability.
3. Familiar with system operation skills in Linux and network.
4. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Perl, Go, or C/C++.
5. Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
6. Familiar with popular CI/CD procedures and environments.
7. Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at this link .

Job Information:

Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $334000 - $435000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra.
• A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.