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.
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.
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Our infrastructure team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale datacenters, managing the life cycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and are reliable.
Areas we are working on include but not limited to:
• Traffic infrastructure and load balancing systems
• Cloud solutions and management platforms
• Big data platform and ETL pipelines
• Host management and system engineering platforms
• Access control and authorization services
Responsibilities
• Design and develop features of CDN software such as DNS server, HTTP proxy and service mesh to process terabyte-scale data in real-time, design and develop CDN system to manage all kinds of CDN workloads
• Build data pipeline and develop telemetry systems to support data-driven traffic control and resource management
• Develop cache, API acceleration and other CDN products that run on top of our CDN system
• Problem solving and performance tuning for online traffic
• Research new technologies for more efficient and scalable traffic processing
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
• Master's degree (or Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of experience) in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major
• 2+ years experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• 2+ years experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++ and Python.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Building infrastructure solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
- Building networking systems that speak TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc.
- Building traffic systems such as load balancers, NAT and proxies, etc.
- Implementing big data solutions based on technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark and Hadoop, which handle Terabytes of data.
- Building platform, automation and tools to manage server fleet, their life cycles and systems running on top.
Preferred qualifications:
• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.
• Experience in a production and hyper-scale environment
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.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at dataecommerce.accommodations@tiktok.com.