Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Live Foundation (Sydney)

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About TikTok LIVE Foundation Subscription Team:
Our team has been focusing on facilitating the operation between creators and fans, helping it efficiently maintain the subscription community and providing long-term effective subscription services.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build up and optimize the real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed system at TikTok. We will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features, and collaborate closely with product managers to provide the best subscription experience and enhance engagement between creators and fans.

Job Responsibilities
- Plan and lead large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for the iterative development and scale of early products
- Develop robust, efficient technology products that serve 1 billion users
- Lead and improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance, and reliability of the product
- Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.
- Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture, improve R&D quality, effeciency and experience.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++.
-Experience building scalable, highly available, distributed and mission-critical systems.
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, data structures and algorithms
- In depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka

Preferred Qualification
- Able to work closely with diverse stakeholders and have good communication skills
- Self-driven, positive, cooperative and willing to keep learning at all times

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.

In the spirit of reconciliation, TikTok acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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