Backend Software Engineer (Reliability Assurance) - Server Architecture

Responsibilities

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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.

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 :

• Responsible for the optimization of TikTok's core function architecture, designing a highly available, high performance, and highly maintainable architecture to ensure the reliability of core functions;
• Responsible for building tools and platforms to improve the efficiency of maintenance work;
• Responsible for responding to incidents.

This role will allow you to :

• Optimize the quality and process of the entire R&D process, conduct in-depth research on code quality improvement, automatic testing, and automatic deployment.
• Optimize the architecture of TikTok, improve the architecture for better reliability, better scalability and lower latency, design automatic disaster recovery solutions.
• 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.

Become an SRE expert, gain insight into the hidden risks of the system, establish operation and maintenance standards, improve the automaticity of operation and maintenance with the R&D team.

Qualifications

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software / system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
• Proficient in at least one of the following backend languages : C / C++ / Java / Go / Python / Shell / PHP.
• Positive and optimistic, strong sense of responsibility, self-driven, 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. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Job Information :

Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $145000 - $250000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match.

As well as Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are : 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

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

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