Senior Site Reliability Engineer, TikTok Embedded SRE

Responsibilities

The team is responsible for supporting various businesses within TikTok, ensuring that their services are performing optimally, with a reasonable operational cost, using in-house and external tooling to achieve this. The team focuses on improving observability and operability of the various services, driven by data, ensuring stability of the business round the clock.

- Lead and mentor members of the team
- Participate in oncall of the service you are supporting, identifying common issues across services and finding a systematic solution to solve the issue at scale
- Participate in the construction of operation and maintenance tools and platforms, and identify strategies to tackle common problems
- Ensure stability of the service through proactive risk monitoring, and identifying new risks
- Identify key system risks through comprehensive data operations to review system health
- Accumulate best practices in operations, and propose new approaches to improve operations in TikTok

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or above, Major in Computer Science or related majors
- Solid basic knowledge of computer software; understand the relevant principles of Linux operating system, storage, network IO, etc.
- Familiar with one or more programming languages, such as Python/Go/Java/PHP/C/C++
- Have the ability to solve problems systematically, good communication skills, and a strong sense of responsibility
- 3 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business
- Solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, or other container orchestration systems
- Experience with developing, deploying, and/or maintaining micro-services architecture with Kubernetes

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $359720 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.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.