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TikTok Backend Online Infrastructure Team is dedicated to building and maintaining a high availability infrastructure that supports the fast-paced nature of TikTok's short video platform. Our team ensures that our backend systems are optimized for the unique demands of high QPS (queries per second) and low latency, enabling millions of users to seamlessly create and consume content every day. We focus on global serving with a multi-data center strategy to provide robust and reliable service to users worldwide.
Key Focus Areas: High Availability Infrastructure, low Latency Distributed Systems,Personal Data Safeguard, Global Architecture with Multi-Data Center
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend infrastructure and services that support cloud-native applications.
- Implement frameworks and tools to enable seamless development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and management of our services and infrastructure components across multiple cloud environments.
- Contribute to the evolution of our continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) processes.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to architect solutions that are optimized for scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance, performance and privacy protection.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance, best practices, and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- BS Degree in Computer Science or related fields
- 2+ years of working experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed systems, cloud computing, or data intensive real-time services.
- Strong expertise in designing, building, and optimizing microservices-based architectures for large-scale online services.
- Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or Java, with a solid understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- In-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tools, and configuration management systems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts and collaborate effectively with team members at all levels.

Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience specifically focused on backend development and distributed systems.
- Proactive and adept at handling uncertainty, skillfully guiding projects from inception to impactful outcomes.
- Highly capable of leading engineering efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving projects to successful completion.

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 $145000 - $250000 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.