Senior Software Engineer, Server Architecture - Efficiency

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.



We are looking for motivated individuals interested in complex engineering challenges around one of the most important aspects of TikTok. You will have the opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of Mobile Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists in a high-impact and fast-paced environment.



As a Backend Engineer on our TikTok Backend Infrastructure team, you will:

1. Responsible for the performance optimization of TikTok servers; and the construction of the company's general performance analysis platform;

2. Optimize the performance of basic components/facilities (storage, computing, language, etc.) to improve server performance;

3. Go deep into business scenarios to solve performance bottlenecks; especially key services, provide optimal architecture from the perspective of performance and efficiency;

4. Think and design related systems, continuously optimize performance work; including performance tools, analysis systems, etc., continuous exploration on best practices.