Site Reliability Engineer - USDS (Multiple Positions)

Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company's success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!

Responsibilities
Provide site reliability engineering support to ensure highest level of availability of large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.
Deliver tools and software to improve the reliability, scalability and operability of services, including designing, developing and deploying automation to sustainably scale with quality.
Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health.
Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems, performing root cause analysis of incidents to influence future product design and response activities.
Establish solid design and best practices for engineers as well as non-technical team members.

Qualifications

Qualifications
Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, and 1 year of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, and 3 years of related work experience.

Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in each of the following:
Performing Linux administration, including monitoring performance, debugging issues, monitoring network behavior, and troubleshooting networked applications using: OS networking protocol stack and the following OS concepts: virtualization and containerization;
Providing functionality and reliability support for critical site components by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health;
Working across all phases of the SDLC, including requirements gathering and analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of back-end and cloud native projects;
Creating and maintaining clear runbook instructions for services to use for alerts, troubleshooting and resolution; and
Coordinating and monitoring data services operations, including SLA management and system deployment.

Employer: TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC
Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: San Jose, CA

Salary Range: $187741 - $259200 per year

To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact lpresumes@tiktokusds.com if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website.

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 https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187741 - $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:

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.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA

Job ID: TikTok-7603112343200680197

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-06T19:59:59