Senior Capacity Planner, CDN Edge Capacity Planning
Responsibilities
About the Team
The Edge Capacity Planning team drives the strategy, planning, and operations behind TikTok's edge data center, PoPs (Points of Presence), and network infrastructure. The team is responsible for planning TikTok's global infrastructure capacities and managing the full lifecycle of resources across computing, storage, and networking. We align infrastructure growth with business expansion, manage the lifecycle of CDN and edge sites, and coordinate with partner teams to ensure edge sites meet performance, reliability, and scalability targets while maintaining cost efficiency. If you're excited by the challenge of planning infrastructure at global hyperscale, this is the role for you. You'll work at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution, partnering across technical and business teams to turn global growth into actionable infrastructure plans.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic capacity planning initiatives for TikTok's global edge and CDN infrastructure, from forecast to execution.
- Analyze traffic growth trends, user demand, and business forecasts to synthesize future capacity needs at edge locations.
- Support TOB and TOC users' onboarding and mass deployment alongside product and engineering teams. Gain deep knowledge of their unique resource profiles and produce a bespoke resource fulfillment plan.
- Partner with product, engineering, network, supply chain, and regional edge strategy teams to develop and maintain a rolling build plan aligned with users' growth, product roadmap, and business cost competitiveness.
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- Work closely with third-party providers and the commercial team to evaluate their capability and cost competitiveness to facilitate vendor selection in a hybrid setting.
- Produce business requirements with a defined SLA for the partner teams' network, strategy, supply chain, delivery and third-party providers to get their proposal with TCO.
- Influence long-term infrastructure roadmap, identifying opportunities to optimize cost, resiliency, and deployment velocity.
- Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles; present capacity strategies and updates to cross-functional leadership.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure capacity planning, technical program management, or large-scale deployment operations.
- Knowledge of IP networking, routing, server hardware, compute, and storage.
- Understanding of datacenter infrastructure, CDN or edge architecture, and global deployment strategies.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with experience driving alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Proven ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into actionable plans.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, setting strategic direction, and managing multiple concurrent initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading capacity planning for a large-scale cloud, CDN, or hyperscale environment.
- Knowledge of interconnect
- Familiarity with hardware lifecycle management, global site expansion, and vendor coordination.
- Knowledge of infrastructure financial planning, TCO modeling, and supply chain constraints.
- Executive-level communication skills; able to present insights and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
- Experience working across international teams and understanding region-specific infrastructure considerations.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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