Technology
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Network and Traffic - USDS
Location
:
Seattle
Employment Type
:
Regular
Job Code
:
A17811
Responsibilities
The infrastructure team of US Tech Services Department at TikTok supports the company’s fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale datacenters, managing the life cycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and are reliable.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed infrastructures. Our SREs are tasked to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective.
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. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities

• Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.
• Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development, to deployment, user support and refinement.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree (or Bachelor’s degree with 3+) years of experience in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major.
• 3+ years experience working with Unix Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• 3+ years experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python.

Preferred qualifications

• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and move projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong in analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.
• Experience in designing, analyzing and building automation and tools for large scale systems.
• Experience in building solutions with AWS, GCP, Azures and other cloud services.
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc. in a carrier-grade environment.
• Experience in developing and operating one or more of following systems: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Nginx, ipvs, ELK stack, Hadoop, etc.

As a condition of employment, all successful candidates must be able to establish authorization to work in the United States. For this position, the Company does not provide sponsorship for any immigration-related benefits.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177688 - $341734 annually.
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Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
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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. 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).
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The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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• Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.
• Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development, to deployment, user support and refinement