TikTok · 12 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Gaming - USDS
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$209K/yr - $438K/yr
2+ years expTikTok is a leading platform dedicated to inspiring creativity and bringing joy. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to ensure the stability and performance of their global gaming infrastructure, focusing on seamless gameplay for millions of users.
Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a high-performing SRE team
Design and implement auto-scaling solutions for game dedicated servers (DGS) to handle massive spikes during game launches and seasonal events
Manage and provision multi-region cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Pulumi
Build robust monitoring dashboards and alerting systems to detect "micro-stutters" or latency issues before they impact the player base
Participate in an on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve high-priority production issues, followed by blameless post-mortems
Balance high-performance hardware requirements (like high-clock speed CPUs for game sims) with cloud cost-efficiency
Streamline the deployment of game builds and backend microservices to ensure rapid, safe releases
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience
2+ years managing SRE/DevOps teams
Programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, C# or Go
Preferred
Expert knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure or OCI (specifically focused on global networking and compute)
Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking protocols (UDP/TCP), and performance tuning
Extensive knowledge of networking, operation systems, database systems 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
Passionate, self-motivated and good teamwork skills
Benefits
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
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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CEO
Blake Chandlee
VP Global Business Solutions
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