Backend Engineer - TikTok Core Service (Singapore)

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, 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 users we serve.

Join us.

The TikTok Core Service Team is responsible for the most important and fundamental services in TikTok's backend system. Our goal is to build and maintain TikTok's core content metadata management and data distribution system and user interaction system development. In this team, you will have chance to develop features that influence billions of people every day and face super high concurrency system challenge on global infrastructure! If you're looking for super high concurrency development challenge and cutting-edge tech scenario, this is the team for you!

Job Responsibility

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of large-scale, globally-serving online core services to support the TikTok short video business.
• Fulfil company and department's top-line goals by collaborating with other teams to make contributions towards solving significant challenges such as international multi-data center and compliance issues for the short video business.
• Explore industry-leading business storage solutions (data placement systems, general data services, etc.) to assist our business in managing and storing business data on a global scale.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or software engineering, with 3-5 years of work experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java/Golang/Python, etc.) with good coding habits and style.
• Familiar with common open-source distributed middleware and components such as MySQL, Redis, and message queues (MQ).
• Understand the design principles of distributed system architecture, including but not limited to service-oriented, asynchronous, highly available, and scalable approaches.
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Possess good teamwork and communication skills, be positive and optimistic, and demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility.
• Preferable to have research and development experience in high-traffic and high-concurrency server systems.
  
  

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.