About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Job highlights

Career growth opportunity, Paid leave, 100+ mil users, Industry experts, Meal allowance, Meals provided, Competitive compensation

Responsibilities

Team Introduction:

The media platform team, facing business experience and cost, builds a competitive video transmission network and multimedia processing platform, data foundation and analysis capabilities, drives product refined operation, reduces costs and increases efficiency.

Responsibilities:

- Build global infrastructure for multimedia transport, storage and processing, to serve billions of users all over the world.

- Engage in global production system management, such as monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning and optimization.

- Build tools, automations, visualizations 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

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related majors, and at least 3-years of related technical background involving software/system engineering, site reliability engineering in applications or projects that directly serve mobile app users.

- Knowledge of SRE responsibilities, including monitoring, incident handling, capacity management and disaster recovery with a track record of managing applications serving more than 5 million DAU or using infrastructure of more than 2000 servers.

- Experience in networking, operation systems, database systems and container technology.

- At least 2-years experience of microservice architecture, and hands on experience in troubleshooting in large scale distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

- More than 1-year programming experience with one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

- More than 1-year hands on experience in common open-source systems such as Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and ELK and experience in building solutions with AWS,Google Cloud, Azures and other cloud services is a plus.

- Demonstrating self-motivation, strong ownership and good teamwork skills in at least 2 cross-team projects.