Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

Edge Platform team is seeking experienced SRE to develop our edge platform networking and maintain its stability as well as drive the functionality and capability of our infrastructure to the next level. Our team builds kubernetes/k8s based global edge platform to manage TikTok's self-built CDN PoPs, supporting workload and service management, providing L4/L7 ingress and service mesh cpability, and enabling dynamic traffic routing and scheduling. Edge Platform team operates hundreds of POPs and their networking and traffic around the world to run edge workloads (e.g. CDN cache, live streaming, gaming, real-time communication, etc.). The L4/L7 ingress with traffic scheduling capability are the core part of the platform, as most edge workloads are networking intensive. We are looking for passionate engineers to join and work together to build a cloud-native edge platform that provides one-stop solutions for edge services.

Responsibilities
• Deploy and administrate Kubernetes clusters both on-prem and in cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Collaborate with software engineers to build enterprise-level platform (PaaS) with cutting-edge Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technologies.
• Design, develop, automate, and continuously improve platform services and pipelines, such as monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc.
• Improve Kubernetes system efficiency and debug issues related to networking, storage, scheduling, etc.
• Collaborate with open-source communities to advance Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
• Master's degree (or Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 4+ years of experience in Kubernetes administration.
• 3+ years of experience in Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond.
• Experience with Kubernetes CNI deployment and troubleshooting, including (but not limited to) the following CNIs: Cilium, Kube-Router, Calico, Flannel.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and building automation tools for large scale and complex systems.

Preferred Qualifications
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification.
• Experience in using and contributing to open-source projects in Kubernetes ecosystem, e.g. Kubespray, CNI, Helm, KubeEdge, Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus, ArgoCD, OPA, Harbor, Envoy, etc.
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, load balancers, etc.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and development.
• Experience in Kubernetes API, Operator, and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) development.

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to us at USRC@tiktok.com.