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 Networking team brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

The Networking team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale.

Responsibilities:
• Design and development of switch OS for data center network devices;
• Explore new networking, monitoring, and telemetry technologies to improve data center network efficiency and availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related major, with 2 or more years in professional software development
• Master one or several of the mainstream programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Python, Go, bash
• Passion in high-speed IP networking, hardware-software interaction, and hardware offloading technologies
• Knowledge of Linux or Unix; proficient in Linux command line, vim/emacs
• Knowledge on how switch/router works, embedded system hardware architecture, processor architecture, and switch/router OS
• Hands-on experience in mainstream merchant switch software development, or SONiC open source development; experience in BSP development is a plus
• Familiar with switch ASIC SDK, experience in XGS driver or SAI development is a plus
• Familiar with or protocol development, experience in routing protocols, telemetry development
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• Self-motivation and self-driving under limited supervision

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 in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at heather.wang@tiktok.com