Senior Capacity Planner, CDN Edge Capacity Planning- Seattle

About the Team

The Edge Capacity Planning team drives the strategy, planning, and operations behind TikTok’s edge data center, PoPs (Points of Presence), and network infrastructure. The team is responsible for planning TikTok's global infrastructure capacities and managing the full lifecycle of resources across computing, storage, and networking. We align infrastructure growth with business expansion, manage the lifecycle of CDN and edge sites, and coordinate with partner teams to ensure edge sites meet performance, reliability, and scalability targets while maintaining cost efficiency. If you're excited by the challenge of planning infrastructure at global hyperscale, this is the role for you. You’ll work at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution, partnering across technical and business teams to turn global growth into actionable infrastructure plans.

Responsibilities

- Drive strategic capacity planning initiatives for TikTok’s global edge and CDN infrastructure, from forecast to execution.

- Analyze traffic growth trends, user demand, and business forecasts to synthesize future capacity needs at edge locations.

- Support TOB and TOC users' onboarding and mass deployment alongside product and engineering teams. Gain deep knowledge of their unique resource profiles and produce a bespoke resource fulfillment plan.

- Partner with product, engineering, network, supply chain, and regional edge strategy teams to develop and maintain a rolling build plan aligned with users' growth, product roadmap, and business cost competitiveness.

- Work closely with third-party providers and the commercial team to evaluate their capability and cost competitiveness to facilitate vendor selection in a hybrid setting.

- Produce business requirements with a defined SLA for the partner teams' network, strategy, supply chain, delivery and third-party providers to get their proposal with TCO.

- Influence long-term infrastructure roadmap, identifying opportunities to optimize cost, resiliency, and deployment velocity.

- Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles; present capacity strategies and updates to cross-functional leadership.