Responsibilities
Join one of the most innovative and fast-paced teams at TikTok, where your work directly impacts the core of our global monetization business. The Ads Delivery team handles billions of ad requests daily, building the high-performance systems that power one of the most sophisticated advertising platforms in the world. If you're passionate about cutting-edge backend development and thrive in solving large-scale system challenges, this is the team for you.
Why Join Us?
By joining our team, you will:
1. Shape the Backbone of Global Advertising
Work in an industry-leading environment that processes a massive volume of ad requests daily. You'll be optimizing backend services to ensure seamless, scalable, and efficient ad delivery.
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2. Drive Technical Innovation in Ad Formats
Collaborate on the design and launch of innovative ad products across various formats and domains, helping the platform support increasingly complex and creative advertising experiences.
3. Solve High-Concurrency, High-Performance Challenges
Engineer backend systems capable of millisecond-level responses in a high-traffic, real-time environment. You'll architect scalable systems that remain stable under extreme loads.
4. Build at Scale
Participate in the design and evolution of globally distributed systems that manage immense data flows and handle advanced business logic across regions and products.
5. Own Creativity and Impact
Go beyond engineering by contributing to product ideation and execution. You'll have the opportunity to turn ideas into real features, driving user experience and business value together with a cross-functional team.
Responsibilities
1. Design and develop backend systems supporting ad delivery for ByteDance's global products.
2. Implement and optimize high-concurrency, high-availability services for real-time advertising scenarios.
3. Continuously improve existing services and proactively identify system bottlenecks and vulnerabilities.
4. Tackle complex technical challenges with high-quality coding and scalable architecture design.
5. Define and help maintain development best practices and coding standards.
6. Collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional teams to turn requirements into reliable, high-performing solutions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
1. Strong programming skills and solid understanding of software design principles.
2. Proficient in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C++).
3. Familiarity with core infrastructure components such as MySQL, Redis, Message Queues, Nginx, etc.
4. Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and complex systems.
5. Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate in a global team setting.
Preferred Qualifications
1. In-depth experience with Go (Golang) and building large-scale distributed systems.
2. Hands-on experience in designing and maintaining systems handling high traffic and concurrency.
3. Deep understanding of backend system optimization, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
4. Prior involvement in 0-to-1 system or feature development.
5. Demonstrated curiosity for emerging technologies and a willingness to share knowledge.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $205000 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.