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
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.

TikTok's Intelligent Creation team develops the core video creation technologies that enable creators to easily capture, edit and publish fun and creative videos directly in the TikTok app.

We are looking for enthusiastic developers at various levels of experience to work on TikTok's core video capture and editing technology. In this role, you will use the latest audio/video technology to enable TikTok creators to make unique and high quality video content. Our technology involves video import, non-linear editing, audio and video processing, rendering, encoding and much more.

As a Senior Software Engineer working on cloud video editing, you will:
- Develop innovative video editing features that enable TikTok's creators to publish exciting and fun videos;
- Work together in a team to plan, develop and release high quality software that reaches millions of creators and works on many different types of devices;
- Research new and emerging technologies and how to apply them to the video creation and editing process;
- Apply the latest audio and video technologies to enhance TikTok user's video creation experience.

Qualifications

- Experience with C/C++ in a production environment, and good knowledge of multi-threading programming, data structures, & design patterns.
- Experience with media processing workflows and common media frameworks and technology such as FFmpeg, GStreamer, and OpenCV;
- Experience with distributed systems and server software development on linux.
- Effective communication, willingness to learn new technologies and apply them to new use cases.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related major with 3 years of software development experience

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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2