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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Tiktok Online Infrastructure

TikTok

$187,040 - $359,720
Sep 26, 2025
San Jose, CA, USA
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TikTok's Backend Online Infrastructure Team is looking to build and maintain a high availability infrastructure that supports the fast-paced nature of TikTok's short video platform, ensuring low latency and high QPS (queries per second) for millions of users worldwide.

Requirements

  • Strong expertise in designing, building, and optimizing microservices-based architectures for large-scale online services.
  • Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or Java, with a solid understanding of software design principles and patterns.
  • In-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tools, and configuration management systems.
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing, or data intensive real-time services.
  • Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend infrastructure and services that support cloud-native applications.
  • Implement frameworks and tools to enable seamless development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and management of our services and infrastructure components across multiple cloud environments.
  • Contribute to the evolution of our continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) processes.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to architect solutions that are optimized for scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance, performance and privacy protection.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance, best practices, and emerging technologies.

Other

  • BS Degree in Computer Science or related fields
  • 3+ years of working experience in software engineering
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts and collaborate effectively with team members at all levels.
  • Ability to interact and occasionally have unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues
  • Ability to appropriately handle and manage confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems