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TikTok USDS Joint Venture

Tech Lead, AI Infra Site Reliability Engineer - USDS

san jose, CA

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Job description

Responsibilities

About the team: The USDS JV AI Infra SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build and run large‑scale, globally distributed, observable, fault‑tolerant systems for TikTok state‑of‑the‑art recommendation and search engines. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large‑scale service mesh architectures.

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of recommendation and search 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 post‑mortems

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or above majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 5+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience in SRE for recommendation systems, search, or advertising platforms

Familiarity with the ML lifecycle and inference engines

Reasonable Accommodation

USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, reach out to us at

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually): The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187,040 ‑ $438,000 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:

Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues

Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems

Exercising sound judgment

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Worksite address

san jose, CA, 95199, US

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