Backend Engineer, Global Live (Service Architecture)

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.

Our Key Problems To Solve, Under the strict Compliance requirements, how to construct Global Live platform with Stability, better Performance (Low-Latency and High-Concurrency), Resilience and Efficiency.

Our Major Objectives are,
1. Ensure Global Live to meet compliance requirements, and promote cross-team architecture governance.
2. Build Global Live architecture with stability, low-latency and resilience to support long-term business development
3. Optimize end-to-end stability and engineering efficiency

Responsibilities
- In-depth analysis of the Global Live streaming business and tech architecture, identify potential risks and probable evolution based on business development direction and to form solution
- Improve System quality and engineering efficiency
- Optimize standard operating procedure and standards
- Be Involved in researching and developing basic services, implementing high qualified throughput and consistency under complex global distributed scenarios;

Qualifications

- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related major, deep understanding of computer architecture, data structures and algorithms, in depth knowledge of common databases
- Experience in an Internet company, familiar with microservice architecture design;
- Deep understanding of software design pattern;
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++;
- Large scale client-facing industry project development experience; Extensive experience in high scalable, highly available, distributed and mission-critical systems.

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.

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