Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Video Platform - USDS at TikTok USDS Joint Venture | San Jose, CA | $187K/yr – $438K/yr

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Video Platform - USDS

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$187K/yr – $438K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

Drive reliability of TikTok’s video system end-to-end, from publishing to global distribution and capacity planning.

Own monitoring, incident response, and SLA compliance for the global video system.
Must-have: Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent and programming in C/C++, Java, Python, or Go.
Standout: Build automation and tooling for large-scale distributed infrastructure.

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.

Requirements

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

Preferred

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.