Join us as we inspire
creativity and bring joy to
millions of users worldwide.
Join us as we inspire
creativity and bring joy to
millions of users worldwide.
@2025 TikTok
Responsibilities
About the Team: The Data Management and Applications team maintains products that cover the whole lifecycle of data pipeline, including data ingestion and Integration, data development, data catalog, data security and data governance. These products support various businesses, so data engineers and data scientists could greatly boost their productivity. As a Site Reliability Engineer in the Data Management and Applications team, you will have the opportunity to maintain, optimize and grow one of the largest data platforms in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on core systems in the data platform ecosystem. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users. 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: - Be responsible for production stability for big data development and governance systems. - Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of service, from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement. - Maintain services once they are alive by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. - Establish the best engineering practice for engineers as well as non-technical people. - Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience with site reliability engineering, monitoring, alerting for big data related systems. - Experience writing code in Java, Go, Python or a similar language. Preferred Qualifications: - Familiarity with containerized deployments such as Docker/Kubernetes. - Experience developing tools and APIs to reduce human interaction with systems and applications using a variety of coding and scripting standards. - Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems is a plus (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink or comparable solutions). - Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of 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.
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:
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; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
About USDS
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS 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, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
