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Backend Software Engineer (Stability Assurance), Server Architecture

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

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.

About the Role

This position is with TikTok's Stability Assurance Team. The team is responsible for ensuring that the services provided by TikTok are highly reliable with low-latency. Reliability assurance is complex and systematic for any massive application system. We focus on optimizing the application architecture from end to end, driven by data analysis, and aim at automatic and intelligent failure recovery.

In this role you are:

1. Responsible for the optimization of TikTok's core function architecture, designing a highly available, high performance, and highly maintainable system to ensure the stability of core functions.
2. Designing and achieving the guarantee system of end-to-end full-link stability for the core functions.

This role will allow you to:

1. Optimize the quality and process of the entire R&D process, conduct in-depth research on code quality improvement, automatic testing, and automatic deployment.
2. Optimize the architecture of TikTok to improve reliability, scalability, and lower latency; design automatic disaster recovery solutions.
3. Build a massive service governance system with the ability to visualize the entire system architecture and locate and resolve faults automatically. Help develop an automated chaos system.
4. Build a stability measurement system to systematically measure the system's ability to prevent, detect, and resolve failures, providing a one-click solution to solve stability problems.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering or equivalent working experience.
2. Good programming experience with high concurrency/complex business system/service management.
3. Proficient in at least one of the following backend languages: C/C++/Java/Go/Python/Shell/PHP.
4. Positive and optimistic with a strong sense of responsibility; self-driven with good team communication and collaboration skills.

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.