About the Team

The USDS Tik Tok Recommendations Infra SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build and run large-scale, globally distributed, observable, fault-tolerant systems. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large-scale service mesh architectures.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Recommendation systems - from system design consulting through to launch reviews, deployment, operation and refinement
• Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability and scalability of services, automate operations and improve R&D efficiency
• Build availability of large-scale services deployed across global data centers
• Plan, manage and optimize cloud resources utilization, ensuring SLA of large-scale clusters
• Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health
• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with at least 2 years of related work experience
• Experience in SRE of large-scale systems deployment with high reliability and scalability
• Familiar with system operation skills in Linux and network
• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Perl, Go, or C/C++
• Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Familiar with popular CI/CD procedures and environments
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

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 or any immigration-related benefits.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118,657 - $259,200 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

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.

Los Angeles County (Unincorporated) Fair Chance Notice

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:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems
3. Exercising sound judgment