At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

TikTok is one of the fastest growing apps in the world, and we are building up an engineering team for core TikTok products in Singapore, to ensure TikTok continues growth, deliver the best product experience to all of our users, build the most attractive features to help users enjoy their time on TikTok, earn trust in privacy protection, and more.

We creatively connect various products and services relevant to daily life through Points of Interest (POIs), videos, live streams, search, and other products, enriching, differentiating, and innovating user experiences in their daily lives.
At the same time, we strive to create an inclusive and fair business environment, empowering businesses, service providers, creators, and other stakeholders to continuously generate more revenue and enhance service efficiency. We believe that through innovation and effort in local services, we can jointly shape a more beautiful and fulfilling life.

Responsibilities:
- Lead and grow a team to build a solid foundation for product development.
- Develop large-scale software systems that power the TikTok app.
- Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance and reliability of the product.
- Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high quality work in rapid product development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Experienced in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++.
- Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures and algorithms.
- Have good team communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with 5 years of work experience in large-scale system development, demonstrating excellent system design capabilities.
- 3 years of experience leading an engineering team.
- 3 years of relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business

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 $224000 - $410000 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.