Software Engineer - Video-On-Demand
Oct 9, 2025 Singapore
About us
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
- Size: 5,001 - 10,000 employees
- Industry: Entertainment & Gaming
Responsibilities
Team Introduction
Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a world-leading video platform that provides multi-media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming services. We are building the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live-streaming network, which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. Popular video products of TikTok and its affiliates are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.
What you will be doing:
- Architect and develop efficient, highly scalable, and secure services that power all the video products within the organisation;
- Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, upload services, and core persistence layer.
- Develop advanced intelligent video QoS data platform, and help client developers make decisions to optimise the user experience of our products.
- Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional video infrastructure system.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Go, Java, Python or C++.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CDN, Multimedia or Live Streaming.
- Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
Team Introduction
Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a world-leading video platform that provides multi-media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming services. We are building the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live-streaming network, which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. Popular video products of TikTok and its affiliates are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.
What you will be doing:
- Architect and develop efficient, highly scalable, and secure services that power all the video products within the organisation;
- Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, upload services, and core persistence layer.
- Develop advanced intelligent video QoS data platform, and help client developers make decisions to optimise the user experience of our products.
- Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional video infrastructure system.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Go, Java, Python or C++.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CDN, Multimedia or Live Streaming.
- Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
Team Introduction
Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a world-leading video platform that provides multi-media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming services. We are building the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live-streaming network, which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. Popular video products of TikTok and its affiliates are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.
What you will be doing:
- Architect and develop efficient, highly scalable, and secure services that power all the video products within the organisation;
- Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, upload services, and core persistence layer.
- Develop advanced intelligent video QoS data platform, and help client developers make decisions to optimise the user experience of our products.
- Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional video infrastructure system.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Go, Java, Python or C++.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CDN, Multimedia or Live Streaming.
- Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
Responsibilities
ResponsibilitiesTeam Introduction
Video-On-Demand (VOD) is a world-leading video platform that provides multi-media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming services. We are building the next-generation video processing platform and the largest live-streaming network, which provides excellent experiences for billions of users around the world. Popular video products of TikTok and its affiliates are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. Working in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the challenges of large-scale networks all over the world, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.
What you will be doing:
- Architect and develop efficient, highly scalable, and secure services that power all the video products within the organisation;
- Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services, including video delivery services, upload services, and core persistence layer.
- Develop advanced intelligent video QoS data platform, and help client developers make decisions to optimise the user experience of our products.
- Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional video infrastructure system.
Qualifications
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Go, Java, Python or C++.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CDN, Multimedia or Live Streaming.
- Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
Additional Information
- Posted: Oct 9, 2025