Site Reliability Engineer, Reliability Team - USDS

Location: San Jose, United States; fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week

Salary: $122,574–$259,200 annually

Company

USDS is a TikTok joint venture focused on data privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and protecting U.S. user data, applications, and algorithms.

What you will do

• Design, optimize, and operate high-concurrency distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and high availability.
• Build automation tools, streamline deployments, and manage infrastructure as code.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, logging, and SLI/SLO systems to improve service observability.
• Design and run global disaster recovery drills, simulate failures, and validate multi-region failover mechanisms.
• Respond to high-priority production incidents, coordinate cross-functional war rooms, and drive service restoration.
• Lead blameless post-mortems, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and capacity planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Strong knowledge of Linux system internals, networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and DNS, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• Experience managing containerized environments such as Kubernetes or Docker.
• Experience in high-traffic production environments, incident response, site stability, or disaster recovery is preferred.
• Experience with observability tools, infrastructure as code, multi-region failover, and distributed database consistency is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site collaboration supports rapid decision-making, team development, and integrated execution.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one, plus a 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time, with increasing accruals by tenure.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available during recruitment.