Senior Backend Architect - Global E-commerce Infrastructure

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, 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.

Global e-commerce is a content e-commerce business with international short video product as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products with affordable prices.

Global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live e-commerce, short video content e-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach. The role will :

1. Lead and implement large-scale cross-domain technology projects in global e-commerce, output technical solutions, solve major technical problems, and be responsible for technical projects;

2. Continuously improve the technical architecture of global e-commerce, and optimize the system's weaknesses in terms of high availability, stability, security, and high performance.

3. Participate in and lead the research and implementation of new technologies related to global e-commerce, responsible for key technological breakthroughs related to the stability of global e-commerce, and responsible for key battles related to business stability;

4. Be responsible for the solution of the high availability architecture of global e-commerce, leading and promoting the implementation of stability assurance solutions, systematically improving the overall technical risk level of global e-commerce through digitalization, productization, and tooling, and creating an efficient, and industry-leading e-commerce system.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification :

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field.

2. Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, familiar with at least one technical language in Java / Go / C++, etc.

3. Have a deep understanding of one or more of the following areas : emergency recovery, change, limited viewership, monitoring, capacity technology, etc.

4. Have experience in building a stability guarantee system or a high availability system in the e-commerce field, and have gone through the tempering of large-scale e-commerce activities.

At the same time, those who have practical experience in disaster recovery architecture, unit design, emergency positioning, capacity defense, red and blue attack and defense are preferred;

Preferred Qualification :

1. Have a deep understanding of the business processes and challenges in the e-commerce industry

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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