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Team Intro: The USDS TikTok Product Engineering SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build, maintain and run large-scale, globally distributed, observable, fault-tolerant systems. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large-scale service mesh architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on building observable, fault-tolerant systems
- Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures
- Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response protocols, and service level objectives
- Develop strategic roadmaps for observability and automation initiatives that enhance system reliability
- Balance technical contributions with people management responsibilities, including career development, performance evaluations, and team growth
- Foster a culture of reliability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing within your team and across the organization
- Lead security initiatives to safeguard critical assets, partnering with security and compliance teams to implement robust protocols that ensure data protection and regulatory compliance across all services
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience and expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, relational databases, caching solutions and web service frameworks
- Previous experience leading a small to mid-size team while maintaining significant "hands-on" technical contributions
- Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems internals and networking fundamentals
- Proficiency in writing production-grade code in Go, Python, Java or similar languages
- Proven track record of establishing and implementing SRE best practices across engineering organizations
- Experience developing and maintaining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, and systems design with proven ability to architect complex technical solutions
- Track record of developing sophisticated automation tools and developer-friendly APIs that streamline operations and eliminate toil
- Extensive experience running high-availability web services at massive scale, with comprehensive knowledge of cloud-native architectures and advanced networking concepts
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
Team Intro: The USDS TikTok Product Engineering SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build, maintain and run large-scale, globally distributed, observable, fault-tolerant systems. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large-scale service mesh architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on building observable, fault-tolerant systems
- Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, globally distributed service mesh architectures
- Establish and maintain production ownership models, incident response protocols, and service level objectives
- Develop strategic roadmaps for observability and automation initiatives that enhance system reliability
- Balance technical contributions with people management responsibilities, including career development, performance evaluations, and team growth
- Foster a culture of reliability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing within your team and across the organization
- Lead security initiatives to safeguard critical assets, partnering with security and compliance teams to implement robust protocols that ensure data protection and regulatory compliance across all services
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience and expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, relational databases, caching solutions and web service frameworks
- Previous experience leading a small to mid-size team while maintaining significant "hands-on" technical contributions
- Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems internals and networking fundamentals
- Proficiency in writing production-grade code in Go, Python, Java or similar languages
- Proven track record of establishing and implementing SRE best practices across engineering organizations
- Experience developing and maintaining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, and systems design with proven ability to architect complex technical solutions
- Track record of developing sophisticated automation tools and developer-friendly APIs that streamline operations and eliminate toil
- Extensive experience running high-availability web services at massive scale, with comprehensive knowledge of cloud-native architectures and advanced networking concepts
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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Align your resume to LCA job codes
SRE roles get filed under DOL occupation codes like Software Developers or Computer Occupations. Match your resume's language to the SOC code your target employer uses, so your credentials map cleanly to the LCA they'll file.
Verify your degree satisfies specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the SRE role. A computer science or software engineering degree is the cleanest path. Related fields like electrical engineering or information systems can qualify if your coursework covers systems reliability concepts.
Search for employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter SRE roles by employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application history, so you're applying to companies that have already cleared the DOL filing process rather than employers figuring it out for the first time.
Clarify infrastructure ownership before accepting offers
SRE roles at staffing vendors or consulting firms often place you at a client site, which creates a secondary employer relationship USCIS scrutinizes heavily. Before accepting an offer, confirm whether the petitioning employer controls your day-to-day work assignments.
Request premium processing for time-sensitive transitions
If you're changing employers within your 60-day grace period, standard H-1B processing timelines can push past your authorized stay. Ask your new employer to file with USCIS premium processing to get a decision within 15 business days.
Document on-call and incident-response work for RFEs
USCIS sometimes issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether SRE duties are truly specialty occupation. Detailed offer letters listing reliability engineering responsibilities, SLO ownership, and incident command work strengthen your petition against that challenge.
H-1B Visa Sre Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. SRE Engineer positions fall under USCIS's computer occupations category and consistently meet the specialty occupation standard when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. The O*NET profile for this occupation lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry-level education, which supports the specialty occupation argument in most petitions.
How do I find SRE Engineer employers who sponsor H-1B visas?
Search Migrate Mate for SRE Engineer roles filtered by verified H-1B sponsorship history. Employers with active Labor Condition Application filings on record have already demonstrated willingness and ability to sponsor. Targeting these companies shortens your job search significantly compared to approaching employers who have never filed an H-1B petition before.
What wage level should my H-1B petition list for an SRE Engineer role?
Your employer must certify a prevailing wage at or above the DOL wage level that matches your experience and job duties. SRE roles with significant autonomy, on-call ownership, and cross-functional responsibilities often warrant Level III or Level IV wages. You can check applicable wage floors by SOC code and location using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new SRE employer mid-year without losing status?
Yes, under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file a non-frivolous H-1B transfer petition, even before USCIS approves it. Your previous employer's approved H-1B is what enables the transfer, so you don't need to wait for a new cap selection. The 60-day grace period after leaving your prior job gives you a window to initiate this process.
Does working as a contractor or through a staffing agency affect my H-1B as an SRE?
It can complicate your petition. USCIS applies an end-client relationship test to SRE roles placed at client sites, requiring the petitioning employer to demonstrate it controls your work. Itinerary letters, master service agreements, and statements of work that show employer control over your reliability engineering duties are typically required. Direct-hire SRE roles avoid this scrutiny entirely.