Backend Engineer — Scalable, High-Performance Live Platform

TikTok; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Live Foundation is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in Sydney to help build scalable, reliable systems for a vast user base. You will work across cross-functional teams on architecture, performance, and tooling to accelerate product development.

Join a cutting-edge team focused on live streaming creator services, content understanding, and monetization for SMBs and creators, with opportunities to influence engineering strategy and culture.

Qualifications

• Proficient in one of Go, Python, Java or C++.
• Experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of computer architecture, data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of databases and messaging frameworks such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead large-scale technical projects to lay the foundation for early products.
• Develop robust, efficient technology that serves 1 billion users.
• Lead and improve system design for high stability, performance and reliability.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

TikTok Live Foundation is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in Sydney to help build scalable, reliable systems for a vast user base. You will work across cross-functional teams on architecture, performance, and tooling to accelerate product development.

Join a cutting-edge team focused on live streaming creator services, content understanding, and monetization for SMBs and creators, with opportunities to influence engineering strategy and culture.