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Tik Tok
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - USDS
3+ months ago• San Jose, CA
Viewed on February 1, 2026
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About Us
Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
- Size: 5001-10000 employees
- Industry: Entertainment & Gaming, Social Media, Technology
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Responsibilities:
The security team is missioned to run and operate security infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in deploying and maintaining scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference.
Responsibilities:
- Work with infrastructure, product and platform engineering teams on operating and deploying software platforms, capacity planning and launch reviews throughout the whole lifecycle of services.
- Maintain sustainable reliability and scalability of software systems by improving automation to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.
- Consistently evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve system reliability and release velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortem.
Qualifications:
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Minimum Qualifications
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BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or relevant majors with 5+ years of working experience.
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Experience in programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general purpose programming languages but not limited to: Go, Python, C/C++ or Rust.
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Experience with Unix Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond.
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Experience in analyzing and debugging production issues at scale.
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Experience and understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts, approaches, methods, and tooling.
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Preferred Qualifications
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Hands on experience with large cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
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Familiarity with infrastructure and provisioning tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Salt Stack.
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Secure infrastructure in a distributed system with automation or practice chaos engineering.
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Experience with two or more of the following areas: web application development, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, mobile application development or security software development.
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Use of AIML technologies to build SRE assistants to automate tasks; diagnose and remediate events; knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Job Information:
For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118657 - $259200 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
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Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
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Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
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Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CAJob ID: Tik Tok-7506196383671240968Employment Type: OTHERPosted: 2025-05-30T00:32:26Apply on company site
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Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
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- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
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- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
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- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
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- Paid Vacation
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- Associate or Rotational Training Program
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About TikTok

TikTok
Late StageA short-form video entertainment app and social network platform
10,001+
Employees
Los Angeles
Headquarters
$220B
Valuation
Reviews
3.1
3 reviews
Work Life Balance
1.5
Compensation
2.0
Culture
1.2
Career
1.8
Management
1.0
5%
Recommend to a Friend
Pros
Limited positive feedback available
Company size allows for potential opportunities
Technology platform experience
Cons
Mass layoffs and poor handling of terminations
Unprofessional management and HR behavior
Exposure to traumatic content without adequate support
Salary Ranges
52 data points
Senior/L5
Senior/L5 · Access Assurance Lead
1 reports
$331,500
total / year
Base
$255,000
Stock
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Bonus
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$331,500
$331,500
Interview Experience
4 interviews
Difficulty
3.5
/ 5
Duration
21-35 weeks
Experience
Positive 0%
Neutral 25%
Negative 75%
Interview Process
1
Application Review
2
Recruiter Screen
3
Online Assessment
4
Technical Phone Screen
5
Onsite/Virtual Interviews
6
Team Matching
7
Offer
Common Questions
Coding/Algorithm
System Design
Behavioral/STAR
Technical Knowledge
Data Structures
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