Senior Software Engineer - TikTok Search

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, 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, to innovate, and to 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.

Our team is responsible for providing TikTok search users with first-class search experience by building a strong and robust infrastructure and platform to support product fast iteration and key feature development.

In our team, you'll have the opportunity to take part in developing the key features on TikTok Search, understand how TikTok Search could be evolved to be a multi-billion-user product and first-handed experience how user request varies on this giant from time to time.

We encourage a culture of self-driven, intellectual curiosity, openness and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Support business development of TikTok Search, provide the best search experience for TikTok users.
• Product Development : Support fast iterations of TikTok Search business and further enable the product growth.
• Performance & Stability : Build a fast and robust Search product by keeping optimizing system performance and improving service stability.
• Search Engineering Infrastructure : Guarantee reasonable Search architecture governance to ensure that the overall system operates smoothly.
• Search offline processing : Construct a high freshness multi-media index and provide a reliable offline data support for Search Engine.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or advanced degree in CS, CE, EE or similar
• Industry experience in building backend services for large-scale consumer-facing applications.
• 5 years' experience in software development

Preferred Qualifications :

• Good understanding on how modern Search system is built or / and how modern Search product should be evolved.
• Industry experience in building a consumer-facing Search product.
• Experience in building a medium-size backend technical team

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.

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