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

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Our data infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the forefront of innovation, merging software development with infrastructure operations to design, build, and manage large-scale, highly distributed systems. We take pride in overseeing one of the industry's most extensive cloud infrastructures, and as software development evolves, building systems from a mix of components has become the new standard. In this era, SRE plays a central role, demanding the ability to design, develop, and operate these components, transforming them into cloud-managed, scalable, and reliable elements. Our professionals act as connectors, ensuring the seamless integration of diverse components to deliver high-performing systems. The dynamic SRE field is about actively shaping the future of technology, not just keeping pace with it. We contribute significantly to the next chapter of data infrastructure and are currently in the process of building global teams around the world. Join us today and embark on this transformative journey!

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 our ongoing efforts to improve our 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.
• Familiar 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 a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.