Senior Backend Software Engineer, Video Arch

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.

Popular video products of Tiktok are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

Responsibilities
1. Implement and integrate next generation computing platform for multimedia processing, including severless / faas, heterogeneous computing, video intelligence.

2. Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional video infrastructure system.
3. Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, upload services, and core persistence layer.
4. Build live streaming platforms, systems, and infrastructure with knowledge in network and distributed systems.
5. Participate in design reviews and code reviews for the video infrastructure team.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
2. Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
3. Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
4. Experience with network software, e.g. TCP/IP, IP Tables, NAT, Deep Packet Inspection, IPV4, IPV6, routing protocols, etc.
5. Experience with CDN, Multimedia, Live Streaming, and WebRTC.
6. Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
7. Experienced in implementing and integrating next generation computing platform for multimedia processing, including severless / faas, heterogeneous computing, video intelligence.