Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

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.

Our Infrastructure Engineering team build and operate hyper-scale datacenters, manage the life cycle of server fleet, allocate cloud resources and create various cloud solutions, and provide infrastructure services including widely distributed Content Distribution Networks (CDNs).

Areas we are working on include but not limited to:
• Traffic infrastructure and load balancing systems
• Cloud solutions and management platforms
• Big data platform and ETL pipelines
• Host management and system engineering platforms
• Access control and authorization services

Responsibilities
• Design and build infrastructure services, systems and platforms.
• Develop tools, automations and monitors to operate infrastructure efficiently.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and be responsible end-to-end to the production environment by responding to performance and reliability issues and participating necessary on-calls.
• Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development, to deployment, user support and refinement.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:
• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience) in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major
• 4+ years experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• 4+ years experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++ and Python.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Building infrastructure solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
- Building networking systems that speak TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc.
- Building traffic systems such as load balancers, NAT and proxies, etc.
- Implementing big data solutions based on technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark and Hadoop, which handle Terabytes of data.
- Building platform, automation and tools to manage server fleet, their life cycles and systems running on top.

Preferred qualifications:
• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.
• Experience in a production and hyper-scale environment

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to us at yinghao.shang@tiktok.com.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177688 - $266000 annually.​

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.​

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees: ​

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life