Staff Software Engineer, SRE - USDS (Multiple Positions)

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
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
- Ensure production reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale distributed systems by driving Capacity Planning, Configuration, Tools Automation, and Disaster Tolerance Readiness for the company's multiple distributed systems.
- Guide the SRE team in improving the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design, throughout development, capacity planning and launch reviews, to deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Design and implement software platforms and monitor frameworks for efficient, automated, and intelligent service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance.
- Implement reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructures and maintain them by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall health of the system.
- Develop docker containers for multiple services and deploy, manage, and monitor them in Kubernetes cluster.
- Developing CI/CD tools in Python and write automation Bash Shell scripts.
- Debug and troubleshoot, including identifying root causes and developing new debugging tools.
- Maintain services to meet service-level-agreements (SLAs) or service-level-objectives (SLOs) by measuring and monitoring availability, performance, and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainability through mechanisms such as automation, evolve systems reliability, efficiency, and velocity by pushing for changes.
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
- Provide technical directions and mentorship to other engineers in the team.

Qualifications

Qualifications
Must have a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Information Systems Management, or a related field, and 4 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Information Systems Management, or a related field, and 6 years of related work experience, out of which 5 years must be post-bachelor's, progressive related work experience.

Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
- Managing Hadoop Distributed File Systems for reliability and operability;
- Operating and performing tuning of HBase clusters;
- Designing and implementing complex distributed systems using Python;
- Designing and operating High Availability infrastructure using MySQL;
- Operating Large-scale Distributed Key-Value Store installations; and
- Garbage Collection and Performance Tuning for JVM-based applications.

Travel Requirement: Domestic travel up to 15% required.

Employer: TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc.
Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location:Mountain View, CA

Salary Range: $283442 - $410000 per year

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

TikTok U.S. Data Security 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 U.S. Data Security, 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 U.S. Data Security 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 lpresumes@tiktokusds.com.

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $283442 - $410000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer 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. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) 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 generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.