Principal Devops Engineer Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Washington

Responsibilities

Our team owns the developer platform and release toolchain that powers TikTok’s US infrastructure. We focus on CI/CD pipelines, artifact repository management, and cloud deployment workflows, partnering closely with engineering teams and assurance partners (USDS/USTS, auditors) to make build, test, and release fast, secure, and compliant by design. You will design, build, and operate the critical tooling that developers use every day: CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and deployment workflows across multiple environments. You will work with engineers across teams to understand their development lifecycle, reduce friction in shipping code, and implement robust security and assurance guardrails that keep our production environments stable, auditable, and compliant.

• Own and Evolve CI/CD Pipelines: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services, improving reliability, speed, and developer experience while embedding security and compliance checks.
• Secure Supply Chain Management: Implement and manage software supply chain security controls, including SBOM generation and validation, artifact signing and attestation (e.g., SLSA), and provenance tracking to ensure the integrity of the build and release process.
• Automate Policy-as-Code Gates: Integrate and enforce automated security and compliance gates within CI/CD pipelines, such as secrets scanning, dependency risk analysis, license compliance checks, and vulnerability scanning, with fail-safe promotion rules.
• Ensure Auditability and Evidence Collection: Design and operate systems for comprehensive auditability, including immutable change logs, deployment records, and traceable rollbacks. Support internal and external assurance requests by providing clear, auditable evidence.
• Manage Cloud IAM and Secrets: Design and enforce least-privilege access controls in OCI/cloud environments. Implement best practices for role design, key/secrets hygiene, and periodic access reviews to minimize security risks.
• Enhance System Resilience and Disaster Recovery: Align release tooling with Risk, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) requirements. Implement and periodically test backup and restore procedures for critical repositories and pipelines.
• Develop and Maintain Incident Playbooks: Create, document, and rehearse incident response playbooks for build/deploy failures and security events. Lead postmortems and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Design and Maintain Deployment Workflows: Standardize deployment workflows (e.g., blue/green, canary, automated rollout/rollback) in a major cloud environment (OCI preferred).
• Manage Artifact Repositories: Administer artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory) including layout, permissions, retention policies, and housekeeping to ensure build reproducibility and integrity.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid software engineering skills with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using systems like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, GCP), with a strong understanding of IAM concepts.
• Practical experience with artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory, Nexus) for container images and language packages.
• Experience integrating security scanning tools (e.g., for dependencies, vulnerabilities, secrets) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with developers and partner teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within compliance-heavy environments and supporting audits (e.g., SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI).
• Expertise in designing and implementing software supply chain security measures, such as code signing, SBOM tools (e.g., Syft, Grype), and artifact attestation frameworks (e.g., SLSA).
• Deep experience with OCI, including advanced IAM, and automating infrastructure and deployments.
• Experience in platform or developer productivity teams, building internal tools and templates for other engineers.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and its security ecosystem.
• A demonstrated track record of writing clear technical documentation for security processes and runbooks.

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 $129960 - $246240 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.