Multi-Cloud CDN Scheduling Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

About the Team
The Global Engineering CDN team builds and operates a highly available, cost-efficient, and high-performance global multi-cloud CDN platform that powers large-scale products such as TikTok.

Our platform integrates both self-built CDN infrastructure and commercial CDN vendors across multiple regions worldwide, delivering reliable and optimized content delivery for diverse global markets. The team develops and operates core platform capabilities including domain onboarding and configuration management, content management, data analytics, and global traffic optimization. Working in a highly distributed and complex environment, we continuously evolve the platform to support both static content delivery and dynamic acceleration, while optimizing for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Engineers in this team work across both software development and production operations, gaining hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, global traffic management, and multi-cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities
- Participate in the development and evolution of the Multi-Cloud CDN access platform, supporting global-scale content delivery across both self-built and commercial CDN infrastructures.
- Build and improve core platform capabilities including domain onboarding, configuration management, content management, certificate management, and operational tooling.
- Work closely with internal product teams to understand business requirements and support service onboarding onto the CDN platform, including configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Participate in the operation and optimization of the self-built CDN infrastructure, helping improve network performance, service reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Develop automation tools and operational workflows to improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and observability.
- Work across both software development and platform operations, participating in troubleshooting, performance optimization, and continuous platform evolution.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related fields.
- Familiar with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C/C++, with development experience in Linux environments.
- Solid foundation in data structures, operating systems, and computer networks.
- Familiar with network fundamentals and common infrastructure components such as HTTP, DNS, storage systems, message queues, and databases.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CDN technologies, networking, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving ability, good communication skills, and a collaborative mindset.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $122574 - $316800 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).