Site Reliability Engineer

Job Overview

TikTok is one of the fastest growing apps in the world, and we're seeking Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join our monetization technology team. The monetization technology team works on building and running large-scale, globally distributed, fault-tolerant ads systems. SREs keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, ensuring our users have the best experience possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Ads systems — from system design consulting through to launch reviews, deployment, operation and refinement.


• Build availability of services deployed across multiple data centers globally.


• Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability, scalability and operability of services.


• Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health.


• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.


• Participate in on-call rotations across continents.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.


• 3+ years of experience in programming in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, or Go.


• Expertise in Unix/Linux operating systems, IP networking.


• Experience in problem solving, application issues, or production operations.


• Experience in automating routine tasks.


• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SRE of Ads/recommendation systems.


• Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Benefits

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. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).