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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About the team:
Our team's mission is to build resonance and inspire expression through music, which includes Music Discovery, Promotion and SoundOn. The team's mission is to inspire music production by servicing creators along the lifecycle of creation, promotion and engagement and to encourage music discovery for consumers.

We are looking for motivated individuals interested in complex engineering challenges around one of the most important aspects of TikTok. You will have the opportunity to work closely with Mobile Engineers, Frontend Engineers as well as SRE and Test Engineers in a high-impact and fast-paced environment.

As a Software Engineer on our Backend team, you will:
• Develop large-scale software systems that power TikTok app.
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance of the services.
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.

Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, deploy and evolve highly scalable distributed services.
- Partner with Product Managers and work with multiple business partners to develop solutions.
- Work in a fast-paced environment and take responsibility and commitment of the production environment by on-call duties.
- Establish strong ownership of the product and service, provide expertise and insights to collaborating engineering teams.
- Collaborate with global XFN teams to support new products innovations and business proposals, and continuously explore new initiatives from the engineering perspective.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related areas.
- 3+ years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python etc.
- Experience designing, evaluating, and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of a distributed system.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects.
- Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques.
- Experience building DSP or Music products is an add-on.

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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $355000 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.