Software Engineer, Performance/Client Infrastructure

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

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.



We are the client infra engineering team behind all applications in TikTok. The client include mobile frontend and some desktop. We proudly serve billions of users across the world and thousands of engineers in TikTok by building and supporting large-scale services, frameworks, tools and systems.



We're looking for engineers to work on client infrastructure/tools and help us improve the quality of TikTok products. As a Software Engineer working in the client infrastructure team, you will develop, deploy, and enhance software solutions for performance and reliability problems in mobile apps, drive new innovations, and help build perfect user experiences. To achieve the goal, you can dive into several tech areas in-depth, such as app architecture, mobile system, virtual machine, and compiler.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze and optimize performance and reliability in mobile apps;

- Build infrastructure pieces and tools that help improve developer efficiency;

- Explore possible solutions for complex and never-before-solved problems;

- Collaborate with cross-product teams to deliver technical solutions and best practices.