Job description
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, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
We are looking for talented individuals to join us for this future position in 2023. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.
TikTok's infrastructure team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyper-scale datacenters, managing the life cycle of the server fleet, providing cloud solutions, developing various infrastructure services and making sure they are scalable and reliable.
Areas we are working on include but are not limited to:
- Traffic infrastructure and load balancing systems
- Cloud solutions and management platforms
- Big data platform and ETL pipelines
- Host management and system engineering platforms
- Access control and authorization services
- Design and build infrastructure services, systems and platforms.
- Develop tools, automation and monitors to operate infrastructure efficiently.
- Work in a fast-paced environment and be responsible end-to-end to the production environment by responding to performance and reliability issues and participating in necessary on-calls.
- Help improve the whole lifecycle of infrastructure services from inception and design throughout development to deployment, user support and refinement.
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelors's or Masters's degree, graduating in 2023
- Successful candidates must start in September 2023
- Studying Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major
- Confident working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
- Have experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, C++ and Python.
- Self-driven and capable of coping with ambiguity and moving projects from concept to delivery.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve real-world problems in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience in production and hyper-scale environment
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Building infrastructure solutions with AWS, Google, Azures and other cloud services.
- Building networking systems that speak TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc.
- Building traffic systems such as load balancers, NAT and proxies, etc.
- Implementing big data solutions based on technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark and Hadoop, which handle Terabytes of data.
- Building platform, automation and tools to manage server fleet, their life cycles and systems running on top.