Tech Lead, SRE - Recommendation Infrastructure

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.



Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.



Our Recommendation Infrastructure Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users.



SREs in our team keep the systems up and running with the highest level of availability, and create highly automated systems and pipelines.



What You'll Do

• 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.