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, Mumbai, 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 an impact happen with a career at TikTok.

Our Team
Our team aims to provide a PAAS platform for recommendation middleware and serve TikTok feeds, e-commerce, live and other businesses or apps. Based on the internal infrastructure, the platform holds massive number of cloud native clusters, indexes, and stream tasks, which are all relative to the global recommendation system. Our platform serves algorithm or architecture engineers and brings convenience for system deployment and operation. Both the codes of platform backend and middlewares are maintained at the same time.

Responsibilities
1. Build the global recommendation control planes with metadata sync networks.
2. Optimizing the end-to-end user experience of the platform and make it more efficient for global teams.
3. Work with the middlewares team and deliver cloud native platform solutions for new middlewares and algorithms.
4. Join the long-time task for building better index platform, feature platform, data center and other products in our team.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields, with at least 2 years of relevant experience;
2. Familiar with Python/C++/Go program development (at least one), striving for high-quality code and focusing on the technical quality of the code.
3. Familiar with Linux system and MySQL/Redis database, with high proficiency in multi-threading and performance optimization;
4. Familiar with cloud native application/workflow development and better have a good experience in PAAS platform development.
5. Independent thinking, able to take the initiative to identify problems, systematic problem analysis, and problem-solving skills.
6. Have the ability to learn, explore, and research in unfamiliar areas.

Preferred Qulifications
1. Knowledge of recommendation system.
2. Active in open-source projects and know how to improve developer 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 dataecommerce.accommodations@tiktok.com.