Backend Engineer, Global Live Core — AI-Driven & Resilient

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a backend engineer for the LIVE Core Services team in Singapore. You will help build foundational services for rooms, users, and leaderboards, supporting tens of millions of concurrent users in a global, multi-datacenter environment.

You will tackle data consistency, disaster recovery, and service governance, contribute to AI-enabled system designs, and work with cross-functional teams to raise engineering quality and operational stability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficient in at least one backend language (Go/Java/C++/Python).
• Strong problem solving and ownership.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems is preferred.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, and continuous optimization of live streaming core services, improving system quality and engineering efficiency.
• Contribute to stability initiatives for critical live streaming scenarios, including disaster recovery architecture design, monitoring system enhancement, and fault detection and recovery capabilities, ensuring core live streaming experiences under extreme disaster scenarios.
• Drive service architecture governance, identify systemic risks, and push forward architecture evolution and engineering standards.
• Participate in the AI-driven evolution of system architecture, designing and developing AI-friendly service architectures and data pipelines.

Skills

Backend languages

Go

Java

C++

Python

Microservices

Distributed systems

Data structures

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Git

Distributed systems design

AI integration experience

Job description

TikTok is seeking a backend engineer for the LIVE Core Services team in Singapore. You will help build foundational services for rooms, users, and leaderboards, supporting tens of millions of concurrent users in a global, multi-datacenter environment.

You will tackle data consistency, disaster recovery, and service governance, contribute to AI-enabled system designs, and work with cross-functional teams to raise engineering quality and operational stability.