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, 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 Distributed Storage team is at the forefront of designing and developing innovative distributed storage systems. As key contributors, your role will involve a continuous drive to enhance system stability, scalability, functionality, and performance, aligning seamlessly with the ever-evolving landscape of business requirements. You'll be instrumental in formulating development goals by project schedules, crafting detailed design documents, and taking charge of module implementation, performance tuning, and comprehensive functional testing.
Our commitment extends beyond development – we take pride in providing timely technical support for online applications. By actively extracting potential needs and optimization points from these interactions, we foster a culture of perpetual refinement. Join us on this exciting journey where your skills will not only be in the creation of groundbreaking storage systems but also the ongoing pursuit of excellence, ensuring our systems remain at the pinnacle of efficiency and functionality.
What you will be doing:
- Design and develop innovative distributed storage systems;
- Continuously improve the storage system in terms of stability, scalability, functionality and performance according to business requirements;
- Formulate development goals according to the project schedule, write detailed design documents and be responsible for module implementation, performance tuning, and functional testing;
- Provide timely technical support for online applications, extract potential needs and points of optimization from them, and continuously optimize the system.
Qualifications
What you should have:
- Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related major, with at least 3 years of relevant experience;
- Familiar with C++/Golang/Java/Python program development (at least one), pursue high-quality code and focus on code engineering quality;
- Familiar with Linux system, with high proficiency in multi-threading, network programming, and distributed development in any programming language;
- Strong understanding of storage system principles, proficient in key technologies of distributed storage and computing, and possess practical experience with them;
- Good at independent thinking, able to find problems proactively, and have systematic problem analysis and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with large-scale distributed storage system design and implementation, such as HDFS / Ceph / S3 / OSS / EBS;
- Contributor/Committer of the open-source community is a plus.
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.
