Graduate Backend Engineer (Edge Computing Platform) (Rolling Intake)

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.

Team Introduction

Video Cloud Infra team, facing business experience and cost, builds a competitive video transmission network and multimedia processing platform, builds data foundation and analysis capabilities, drives product refined operation, reduces costs and increases efficiency.

We are seeking passionate engineers to design and develop an edge PaaS platform based on tens of millions of distributed heterogeneous device nodes, including resource orchestration and scheduling, containerization, IoT, Linux networks, FaaS, and general PaaS capabilities.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for business scenario abstraction, technical solution design and implementation on the platform side.
2. Participate in various special technical research, forward-looking projects with new technology introduction.
3. Promote the internationalization process of the PaaS platform and manage the company's global edge resources.

Qualifications

1. Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
2. Solid programming skills, good coding style, good foundation in data structures and algorithms, and good problem-oriented engineering thinking.
3. Positive and optimistic, strong sense of responsibility, serious and meticulous work attitude, good team communication and collaboration skills.
4. Love programming, strong desire for knowledge, curiosity and enterprising spirit, able to timely focus on and learn the new technologies in the industry.
5. Experience in high-concurrency services, microservice design and implementation, and system architecture design is preferred.
6. Experience in k8s, docker, Linux networks, IoT, FaaS and other edge computing related R&D is preferred.

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.

In the spirit of reconciliation, TikTok acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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