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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Responsibility - USDS

- **Company:** Tiktok Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $177,688.0 - $341,734.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Unix, Software Quality, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Log Analysis, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Datadog, Large Language Models, Grafana, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8f0513ed48e549ff

## About the Role

Do you have experience in UNIX?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical discipline. - At least 5 years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering. - Proven experience integrating AI/LLM APIs into internal workflows, specifically for log analysis, alert contextualization, or diagnostic assistance. - Deep understanding of Unix/Linux system internals, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems architecture. - Expertise in designing and scaling observability stacks using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog. - Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex, non-obvious production issues across the entire stack. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building agentic workflows and orchestration frameworks to assist in incident triaging and runbook matching. - Mastery of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate infrastructure-as-code delivery and automate documentation. - Deep technical
proficiency in container orchestration via Kubernetes and managing big data technologies such as Kafka.

## Description

administration and operational efficiency, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and code quality - Participate in regular on-call rotations as part of a team that provides 24 hour coverage across multiple shifts - Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, development, capacity planning, and launch reviews, to deployment, operation, and refinement - Practice sustainable user support, incident response, and post mortem - Drive the long-term roadmap for system administration tools. Build internal platforms that leverage AI-assisted development to eliminate toil and improve engineering velocity. - Serve as a primary Incident Commander for high-severity issues, leading cross-functional teams and ensuring technical resolution aligns with business priorities. - Partner with Product and Development teams from the design phase to ensure observability, scalability, and disaster recovery are core components of every new feature.

 - Foster a culture of sustainable operations by mentoring junior engineers and evangelizing SRE principles throughout the organization.


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