Backend Engineer, Global Live Core Services

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

Job summary

TikTok in Singapore is hiring for a backend engineer to help build live streaming core services, spanning rooms, users, and leaderboards, ensuring data consistency and high availability across global datacenters.

You will work with Go/Java/C++/Python, microservices, and distributed systems, tackling scale, disaster recovery, and AI-driven architectural evolution to deliver reliable, scalable live experiences for tens of millions of concurrent users across a global multi-datacenter environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related field, with a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and networking
• Proficient in at least one backend programming language (Go / Java / C++ / Python, etc.), familiar with microservices and common software architecture patterns
• Strong logical thinking and problem decomposition skills, able to independently analyze complex problems and drive resolution
• Strong technical curiosity and self-driven learning ability, willing to understand systems at a fundamental level rather than staying at the surface
• Good communication, collaboration skills, and a strong sense of engineering ownership

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

Go/Java/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

TikTok in Singapore is hiring for a backend engineer to help build live streaming core services, spanning rooms, users, and leaderboards, ensuring data consistency and high availability across global datacenters.

You will work with Go/Java/C++/Python, microservices, and distributed systems, tackling scale, disaster recovery, and AI-driven architectural evolution to deliver reliable, scalable live experiences for tens of millions of concurrent users across a global multi-datacenter environment.