TikTok video system is a world-leading video platform that provides multimedia storage, delivery, transcoding services. As part of the USDS, the Video Platform team is responsible for building the next generation video processing platform which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. The USDS Video Platform team is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us continue improving TikTok's video system.
Requirements
- 2+ years of SRE or DevOps experience in large scale online services
- Programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C or Go.
- 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.
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.
Other
- 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.
- Passionate, self-motivated and good teamwork skills.
- This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.
