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 team operates a large network of POPs around the world hosting edge services, such as traffic acceleration, CDN cache, gaming, etc. We are seeking experienced frontend developers to build the Kubernetes-based platform (PaaS) to manage the lifecycle (creation, deployment, CI/CD etc.) and provide management tools (monitoring, alerting, logging, etc.) for edge services on our globally distributed POPs.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed infrastructures. Our SREs are tasked to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently scalable and cost-effective. You will have the opportunity to manage a variety of complex systems at scale, including systems that administer hyperscale datacenters and public cloud, a global content distribution networks (CDNs) and load balancers that handles Tbps of traffic etc..

Responsibilities
• Build, expand and operate Bytedance's global infrastructures, including large-scale systems in public and private clouds, data centers and content delivery networks.
• Build tools, automations, visualizations and monitors to facilitate the operation and optimization of the global infrastructure.
• Work in a fast-paced environment. Participate in technical operations and rotations in response to performance and reliability issues.
• 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 with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• 4+ years experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Python.

Preferred qualifications
• Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and move projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong in analytical skills and the ability to solve real world problems in a fast moving environment.
• Experience in designing, analyzing and building automation and tools for large scale systems
• Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
• Experience in networking technologies such TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc. in a carrier-grade environment.
• Experience in developing and operating one or more of following systems: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Nginx, ipvs, ELK stack, Hadoop, etc.

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 USRC@tiktok.com.