Site Reliability Engineer - USDS

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

About USDS
U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a standalone department of TikTok in the U.S. This new security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Site Reliability Engineering at TikTok combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. In our team, you’ll manage the complex challenges of scale, while using expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. We embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

1. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, throughout development, capacity planning, and launch reviews, to deployment, operation, and refinement.
2. Design and implement software platforms and monitor frameworks for efficient, automated, and intelligent service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance.
3. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as automation; evolve systems reliability, efficiency, and velocity by pushing for changes.
4. Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 3-5+ years of experience.
2. Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, and Rust.
3. Familiar with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems.
4. (Preferred) Experience in MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.
5. (Preferred) Experience in designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems.
6. (Preferred) Strong skills in problem-solving and communication.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 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 and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits include 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match, as well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.

Our time off and leave plans include 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year, as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra, a 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.