Senior Backend Software Engineer, Global E-Commerce Architecture - Seattle

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.

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 at affordable prices. The global e-commerce business team hopes to provide users with more tailored, active and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive stable and 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.

Global e-commerce Architecture is a global team responsible for responding to the challenges of globalization and ensuring the stable operation and healthy development of global e-commerce businesses. The team specializes in engineering efficiency by providing SDLC solutions, CI/CD pipelines, tooling, best practices, and any other services that enhance DevOps, engineering quality, and productivity for global e-commerce.

Responsibilities:

• Define, implement, and promote SDLC and engineering best practices.
• Design, build, and enhance CI/CD services for global e-commerce.
• Research, design, and implement solutions to enhance engineering efficiency.
• Optimize the system to improve availability, observability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-teams to implement solutions.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related areas
• 5 years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Python etc.
• Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style
• In-depth knowledge of common databases and messaging frameworks like MySQL/Redis/Kafka/MQ etc.
• Familiar with the Internet architecture system, have a good understanding and practice of microservice, service governance, load balance, etc.
• Positive and optimistic, strong sense of responsibility, serious and meticulous work, good team communication and collaboration skills
• Love programming, have strong learning ability, have a strong thirst for knowledge, curiosity and enterprising spirit, and can pay attention to and learn the latest technology in the industry in time
  
  

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 pdi.accommodations@tiktok.com.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $175750 - $266000 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.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.