Server Side Development Engineer

Responsibilities
About TikTok
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.

**About the team**:
Tea(Toutiao Event Analyze) is an in-house analytics platform that is heavily used by more than 10,000 employees globally. This is a data middle platform product built on user behavior data, providing data analysis services for various domestic and international businesses within ByteDance/TikTok, including Douyin, Toutiao, Xigua, TikTok, and more. It possesses robust capabilities to support exabyte-level massive data, trillion-level event volume, and millisecond-level response time, offering users simple, flexible, and high-performance data analysis services.
We are the global engineering team for Tea. We are passionate about building the best data analytics platform in the world and are looking for top-notch software engineers to join the talented team. We deliver Tea products to over ten regions worldwide, optimizing product performance based on the unique data and cultural characteristics of each region.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Implement and optimize database architecture to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Collaborate with frontend development teams to design and implement effective API interfaces.
- Write clear technical documentation, documenting system design and development processes.
- Compliance Requirement: Familiarity with and adherence to international data protection regulations; ability to formulate and execute compliance-oriented strategies.
- Global Multi-Environment Deployment and Operations: Experience in deploying and maintaining big data platforms across multiple global locations; familiarity with cross-geographical operational challenges.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with experience in software engineering
- 1 years Experience in server-side development, familiarity with common backend programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.
- 1 years experience / proficiency in database design and optimization, with experience in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- 1 year experience with RESTful API design and implementation, with collaborative experience to ensure smooth communication between front-end and back-end.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- High attention to system performance and security, capable of solving complex technical challenges.
- Strong desire for learning new technologies, ability to continuously track industry trends.
- 3 years Experience in server-side development, familiarity with common backend programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.
- 3 years experience / proficiency in database design and optimization, with experience in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- 3 years experience with RESTful API design and implementation, with collaborative experience to ensure smooth communication between front-end and back-end.

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.