Site Reliability Engineer - Video Platform - USDS Job at TikTok in Seattle

Site Reliability Engineer - Video Platform - USDS

The Video Platform team is responsible for building the next generation video processing platform which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world.

The USDS Video Platform team is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us continue improving TikTok's video system. If you are passionate about ensuring software reliability, love problem-solving, and are prepared for exciting challenges, we would like you on our team.

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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall reliability of TikTok's video system, including video publishing and distribution.
• Perform lifecycle management of production systems including change management, service deployment, operations and emergency response.
• Monitor the system and respond to incidents to maintain system service level agreement (SLA), review and follow up all production incidents.
• Perform capacity management of compute, storage and network bandwidth resources to ensure system stability and save infrastructure costs.
• Provide strong support during big events to ensure the system is capable of consuming a large volume of Internet traffic.
• Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
• 2+ years of SRE or DevOps experience in large scale online services
• Programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C# or Go.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of networking, operation system, database system and container technology.
• Good understanding of every aspect of microservice architecture, and hands on experience in troubleshooting in large scale distributed systems.
• Hands on experience in common opensource systems such as Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and ELK.
• Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services is a plus.
• Passionate, self-motivated and good teamwork skills.

About USDS

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.

USDS Reasonable Accommodation

USDS 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.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129960 - $246240 annually.

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.