Software Engineer, Edge Platform- Seattle

Seattle, WA, United States

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.

Edge Platform team is seeking experienced software engineer to develop our edge platform networking and maintain its stability as well as drive the functionality and capability of our infrastructure to the next level. Our team builds kubernetes/k8s based global edge platform to manage TikTok's self-built CDN PoPs, supporting workload and service management, providing L4/L7 ingress and service mesh capability, and enabling dynamic traffic routing and scheduling. Edge Platform team operates hundreds of POPs and their networking and traffic around the world to run edge workloads (e.g. CDN cache, live streaming, gaming, real-time communication, etc.). The L4/L7 ingress with traffic scheduling capability is the core part of the platform, as most edge workloads are networking intensive. We are looking for passionate engineers to join and work together to build a cloud-native edge platform that provides one-stop solutions for edge services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to build enterprise-level edge computing platform (PaaS) that serves both internal and external teams.

• Develop and Enhance microservices using Cloud Native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, Postgres, Containers, etc.

• Write the necessary unit test, integration test, and end-to-end test.

• Work in a fast-paced environment and be responsible end-to-end to the production environment.

• Building and maintaining complex data ETL pipelines to support petabytes of real time or batch data

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience) in Computer Science, Computing Engineering, or related fields.

• 3+ years experience in programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, C/C++.

• Experience with one or more databases and messaging frameworks, such as MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.

• Experience in using Kubernetes, docker or other container technologies.

• Experience in development of backend REST or gRPC services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in large scale distributed system development.

• Experience with backend development and frameworks such as Gin, Iris, Django, Spring, etc.

• Deep understanding of data structure design, networking, authentication and authorization, CI/CD build and deployment.

• Experience in using or contributing to Cloud Native tools, e.g. Prometheus, ArgoCD, Helm, Kubectl, Kustomize, Grafana, Thanos, etc.

• Familiar with data ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading) and Big Data technologies(Hadoop, Hive, Spark, ClickHouse, Flink, etc.)

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. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Job Information:

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129960 - $194750 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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