Backend Software Engineer

**Job Summary**:
**Salary**
S$6,500 - S$13,000 / Monthly

**Job Type**

**Seniority**

Junior

**Years of Experience**
At least 2 years

**Tech Stacks**
AIOps Graph Docker Go RPC MQ Java Spark Linux Kubernetes kafka Flink MySQL Redis MongoDB Python

**Responsibilities**

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok's sponsorship of a visa.

**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.

**Team Introduction**

The team is responsible for infrastructure systems, including Storage/Computing/DB. In the DBA team, you will have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale, while using expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. We embrace a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving. We also encourage ownership, self-governance and independence to work on various projects and an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow as an engineer.

**What the team does**:
1. Reliability: Ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our core infrastructure, focusing on system capacity and stability; setting up reliability standards and recovery SOP.

2. Reliability: Troubleshooting and locating the technical issues, bottleneck analysis, managing system high availability architecture transformation and upgrading.

3. Efficiency: Building automated operation solutions for large-scale systems; partnering with system development teams for system iteration.

4. Efficiency: Designing and implementing software platforms and monitoring frameworks for efficient, automated, and intelligent service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance.

5. Cost: There are millions of CPUs. We should build delivery standards, and monitor and budget systems to optimize the cost of the company.

6. Compliance: Designing and setting up new IDC; designing and implementing data protection plan to meet the standard requirement.

**What you will be doing**:

- Manage day-to-day operations, such as monitoring, backup, performance tuning, and failure handling of database systems;
- Participate in schema design, implementation, and data migration over a large MongoDB sharded cluster;
- Build end-to-end solutions over MongoDB infrastructure, with a focus on performance, high availability, and growth needs of our customers;
- Create tools and automation to improve database administration and management efficiency;
- Responsible for database middleware testing, maintenance, and management;
- Participate in regular on-call duties.

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Solid basic knowledge of computer software, understanding of Linux operating system, storage, network IO and other related principles.
- Familiar with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Go, and Java. Knowledge of design patterns and coding principles is necessary.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related major, with at least 4 years of relevant experience;
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with the following:
1. Experience with storage, and relevant system experience with the following: KV, Table, Graph, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, MQ, and Kafka.

2. Experience with computing & big data, and system experience with the following: Kubernetes, Docker/Containers, AIops, Spark, Flink, Function as a service, RPC Framework, and Service Mesh.

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.