Responsibilities
About TikTok
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, innovate, and 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.
About the Team
TikTok Video Infrastructure is a world-leading video platform that provides multimedia 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 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:
- Build global infrastructure for multi-media transport, storage, and process, to serve billions of users all over the world.;
- Engage in global production systems management such as monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning and optimization;
- Build tools, automation, visualisations, and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure;
- Engage in and improve the whole service lifecycle, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement;
-Scale up systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and initiate changes that improve system reliability and processing speed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering;
- At least 5 years of relevant experience;
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: SQL, Python, or Go;
- Extensive knowledge of networking, operation system, database system, and container technology;
- Good understanding of every aspect of microservice architecture, and hands-on experience in troubleshooting in large-scale distributed systems;
- Hands-on experience in common open-source systems such as Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and ELK;
- Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures, and other cloud services is a plus;
- Passionate, self-motivated, and good team collaboration skills.
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.
