Site Reliability Engineer, Data Platform - USDS

Responsibilities

Team Intro:
The Data Engineering team in Data Platform USDS is focused on ensuring the stability, reliability, scalability and risk management of TikTok's US data processing ecosystem. We maintain and operate both batch and streaming pipelines for multiple vertical businesses such as TikTok and TikTok Shop while simultaneously adhering to strict data compliance standards. We collaborate with a host of internal teams to better enable user experiences by delivering high quality at scale.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed services and infrastructures. As a site reliability engineer in the data platform area, you will have the opportunity to manage the services and infrastructures in one of the largest data platforms in the world that directly supports the TikTok app. You'll need to ensure the data, services and infrastructures are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of service, from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
- Ensure reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective data, services and infrastructures.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Establish best engineering practice for engineers as well as non-technical people.
- Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Min 2 years experience writing code in Java, Go, Python or a similar language.
- Experience with algorithms ,data structures, complexity analysis and software design.

Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge about a variety of strategies for ingesting, modeling, processing, and persisting data, ETL design and dimensional modeling.
- Familiarity with running production grade services at scale and understanding cloud native technologies and networking.
- Experience developing tools and APIs to reduce human interaction with systems and applications using a variety of coding and scripting standards.
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems is a plus (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink or comparable solutions).
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship for any immigration-related benefits.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $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 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:

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