Tech Lead Manager - TikTok LIVE Foundation Ecosystem

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.



We are looking for passionate and talented engineers to join us to build up and optimize a real-time, high-performance, large-scale distributed infrastructure for live streaming at TikTok. We will be deeply involved in the developmental lifecycle of critical product features, and collaborate closely with product managers to deliver the best live streaming experience for live streamers and viewers.



About TikTok Live - Foundation Ecosystem Team

TikTok Live - Foundation Ecosystem Team engineering team is the critical team which takes the responsibility of building the backbone system for delivering creators' live broadcasting to hundreds of millions of users, collaborating with recommendation algorithms & safety algorithms to guarantee our content's best quality, and thus delivering joy and happiness to our globally wide users and creators.



In here you will participate in providing technical solutions for live broadcast business scenes, optimize various business indicators and create good user experience and great content ecology system for the greater good. Every line of your code affects hundreds of millions of users. Every feature you build will be used by hundreds of millions of people.



You will:

- Play a critical role in planning and leading large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for the iterative development and scale of early products.

- Participate in developing robust, efficient technology products that serve 1 billion users.

- Be a key member in improving architecture to ensure high stability and performance.

- Be a key member in combining strategy power and engineering power together to achieve a better content eco-system.

- Be involved in researching and applying cutting-edge domain and technical knowledge into products which could benefit worldwide TikTok users.