Responsibilities
TikTok will be prioritising applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.
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.
Join us.
Team Introduction
The Cloud Infrastructure team, based in Singapore, supports many of our star products and core business lines, serving hundreds of millions of users every day. We actively embrace open source and innovative software/hardware architecture, building a series of infrastructure to ensure the best R&D practices and enable the overall development of the company.
The FaaS team is committed to creating a highly available and easily expandable universal serverless computing platform, following the concept of service functionalization. The platform supports creating and deploying application functionalities with one click, shields resources and maintenance details, and greatly reduces developers’ development costs. At the same time, the lightweight and fast start-up capabilities of FaaS allow the platform to automatically expand and shrink the capacity of the functions and optimize the resource cost. At present, the serverless computing platform carries tens of millions of requests per second.
We look forward to those who are energetic, innovative, and experienced in the design of highly available systems to explore and practice together with our team.
What you will be doing:
- Design and develop our FaaS, building a highly available and easily expandable serverless computing platform;
- Design and develop FaaS worker Wasm and v8 runtime;
- Design high performance, low overhead data plane forwarding and optimization for cold start;
- Explore stateful Serverless Computing.
Qualifications
- Excellent programming abilities and solid foundations in data structure and algorithms;
- Practical experience with large-scale distributed systems and complex problem solving skills;
- Proven experience with one or more languages such as Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Rust.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of serverless computing and related fields;
- Experience with open source projects such as Firecracker, KVM, Kubernetes, OpenFaaS, Knative;
- Familiar with AWS Lambda, Google Function, Azure Function and other products.
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.
