Responsibilities

Our team of US Tech Services Department at Tik Tok supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale data centers, managing the life cycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions, and developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and are reliable.

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to be the architect and builder of our core services. This role is dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance server-side systems that drive our platform's functionality and stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Service Development: Design, build, and deploy production-grade, highly concurrent services
• System Scalability & Reliability: Implement best practices for ensuring system reliability, performance tuning, and optimizing application efficiency under heavy load.
• Infrastructure and Operations: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrate services with monitoring and logging tools.
• Architectural Design: Participate in technical design reviews, identifying and addressing technical debt, and defining future system architecture to support long-term growth.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline with industry experience.
• 1+ years experience as a software engineer with proven contributions to team-based projects, ideally in a collaborative role.
• Solid programming skills, proficient in C/C++ and Python with a strong grasp of data structure and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, concurrent programming, and microservices architecture.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118,657 - $259,200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Los Angeles County (Unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.