SRE Tech Lead - Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 14, 2026 Dublin
About us
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
- Size: 5,001 - 10,000 employees
- Industry: Entertainment & Gaming
Responsibilities
The Technical Infrastructure SRE team is responsible for managing the whole infrastructure and applications. Our mission is to ensure all production systems can support our fast growing world-wide user base as well as keep the entire systems stable, efficient and cost effective. We manage deployments, system capacity, traffic scheduling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, emergency response, automations, operation platforms development, etc.
Be responsible for the basic engineering construction of byte infrastructure products & components, focusing on infrastructure O&M architecture optimization, automated O&M platform research and development, data and intelligent O&M. Through the methodology of software engineering and digital intelligence, O&M, around the O&M requirements of infrastructure products & components, built a layered and systematic O&M platform to solve the problem of ultra-large-scale cluster O&M management. (Goals) To provide stable, efficient, and low-cost serverless infrastructure facilities for Mid-Platform & Business.We aim to be the leading SRE team across the industry.
- Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable and reliable Infrastructure Platform systems.
- Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead the team's innovation efforts, bring in new ideas and technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
1. Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
2. Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software development or systems engineering.
3. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or Golang
Preferred Qualifications
1. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with data science and infrastructure teams.
2. Hands-on in designing, building, scaling, and troubleshooting platform solutions.
3. Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
4. Experience with compute/storage/database, and relevant system experience with the following: HDFS, Object storage, file storage, KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka. Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.
The Technical Infrastructure SRE team is responsible for managing the whole infrastructure and applications. Our mission is to ensure all production systems can support our fast growing world-wide user base as well as keep the entire systems stable, efficient and cost effective. We manage deployments, system capacity, traffic scheduling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, emergency response, automations, operation platforms development, etc.
Be responsible for the basic engineering construction of byte infrastructure products & components, focusing on infrastructure O&M architecture optimization, automated O&M platform research and development, data and intelligent O&M. Through the methodology of software engineering and digital intelligence, O&M, around the O&M requirements of infrastructure products & components, built a layered and systematic O&M platform to solve the problem of ultra-large-scale cluster O&M management. (Goals) To provide stable, efficient, and low-cost serverless infrastructure facilities for Mid-Platform & Business.We aim to be the leading SRE team across the industry.
- Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable and reliable Infrastructure Platform systems.
- Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead the team's innovation efforts, bring in new ideas and technologies.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
2. Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software development or systems engineering.
3. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or Golang
Preferred Qualifications
1. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with data science and infrastructure teams.
2. Hands-on in designing, building, scaling, and troubleshooting platform solutions.
3. Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
4. Experience with compute/storage/database, and relevant system experience with the following: HDFS, Object storage, file storage, KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka. Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.
The Technical Infrastructure SRE team is responsible for managing the whole infrastructure and applications. Our mission is to ensure all production systems can support our fast growing world-wide user base as well as keep the entire systems stable, efficient and cost effective. We manage deployments, system capacity, traffic scheduling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, emergency response, automations, operation platforms development, etc.
Be responsible for the basic engineering construction of byte infrastructure products & components, focusing on infrastructure O&M architecture optimization, automated O&M platform research and development, data and intelligent O&M. Through the methodology of software engineering and digital intelligence, O&M, around the O&M requirements of infrastructure products & components, built a layered and systematic O&M platform to solve the problem of ultra-large-scale cluster O&M management. (Goals) To provide stable, efficient, and low-cost serverless infrastructure facilities for Mid-Platform & Business.We aim to be the leading SRE team across the industry.
- Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable and reliable Infrastructure Platform systems.
- Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead the team's innovation efforts, bring in new ideas and technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
1. Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
2. Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software development or systems engineering.
3. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or Golang
Preferred Qualifications
1. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with data science and infrastructure teams.
2. Hands-on in designing, building, scaling, and troubleshooting platform solutions.
3. Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
4. Experience with compute/storage/database, and relevant system experience with the following: HDFS, Object storage, file storage, KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka. Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.
Responsibilities
ResponsibilitiesThe Technical Infrastructure SRE team is responsible for managing the whole infrastructure and applications. Our mission is to ensure all production systems can support our fast growing world-wide user base as well as keep the entire systems stable, efficient and cost effective. We manage deployments, system capacity, traffic scheduling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, emergency response, automations, operation platforms development, etc.
Be responsible for the basic engineering construction of byte infrastructure products & components, focusing on infrastructure O&M architecture optimization, automated O&M platform research and development, data and intelligent O&M. Through the methodology of software engineering and digital intelligence, O&M, around the O&M requirements of infrastructure products & components, built a layered and systematic O&M platform to solve the problem of ultra-large-scale cluster O&M management. (Goals) To provide stable, efficient, and low-cost serverless infrastructure facilities for Mid-Platform & Business.We aim to be the leading SRE team across the industry.
- Grow and lead a team of engineers committed to building and operating scalable and reliable Infrastructure Platform systems.
- Be both technically hands-on and people manager.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.
- Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
- Lead the team's innovation efforts, bring in new ideas and technologies.
Qualifications
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications
1. Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
2. Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software development or systems engineering.
3. Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or Golang
Preferred Qualifications
1. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with data science and infrastructure teams.
2. Hands-on in designing, building, scaling, and troubleshooting platform solutions.
3. Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
4. Experience with compute/storage/database, and relevant system experience with the following: HDFS, Object storage, file storage, KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka. Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.
Additional Information
- Posted: Apr 14, 2026