Backend Software Engineer - TikTok Client Arch

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, with offices in New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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, innovate, and 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. The TikTok Mobile Architecture & Infrastructure Team is dedicated to productivity and quality of TikTok APP's engineering projects, empowering hundreds of TikTok mobile developers in areas including infrastructure, app architecture, engineering tool chains, and app foundations. You will join a team consisting of creative, passionate developers who strive to stay at the forefront of technologies.

We constantly push the limits of what our technology is capable of, strive to be leaders in innovation, and deeply value the diversity of a team's background. We share our learning through regular weekly meetings, tech talks, and internal tech journals. If you are interested in joining a world-class team and are ready to take up challenges of huge complexity and scale, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building a R&D management platform to provide general services to help client-side RDS optimize the performance, experience, and engineering architecture of TikTok App.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of core services such as Feature Management Service and Strategy Management Service.
• Continuously improve existing services, analyze bottlenecks, optimize weaknesses, and improve performance and stability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Familiar with Golang/Python and corresponding frameworks, and understand common components such as MySQL, Redis, and MQ.
• Understand the design ideas of distributed system architecture, including but not limited to service-oriented, asynchronous, highly available, scalable, etc.
• Be positive and optimistic, have a strong sense of responsibility, and possess good team communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding client-side technologies such as Android and iOS would be an advantage.
• Experience working in a complex, matrix organization involving cross-functional and/or cross-business projects.
• Strong communication skills; enjoy working as a team while being comfortable with delivering large business outcomes independently.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform