Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure

$129,960 - $194,750/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at TikTok is responsible for innovating and managing large-scale, highly distributed systems that support the platform's mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. This role involves designing, developing, and operating cloud-managed components, ensuring seamless integration and high performance across the infrastructure. The SRE team plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology by actively participating in the complete service lifecycle and enhancing system reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Participate in and enhance the complete service lifecycle, from inception and design, through development, capacity planning, launch reviews, deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Design and implement software platforms and monitoring frameworks to govern service-oriented architecture (SOA) efficiently, automatically, and intelligently.
• Develop and manage components of cloud-managed data infrastructure, encompassing technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Flink, and more.
• Establish sustainable mechanisms for scaling systems, such as automation, to drive enhancements in reliability, efficiency, and velocity.
• Provide sustainable user support, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless postmortems as part of ongoing efforts to improve systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience programming in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, and Rust.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in MySQL, Redis, Ngnix, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.
• Experience in designing and analyzing large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong skills in problem solving and communication.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
• Approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company match
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Short/Long term Disability insurance
• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
• 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
• 401K company match
• Gym and cellphone service reimbursements