Backend Engineer — Scalable Search Architecture

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Yoga and fitness

Six insurances and one fund

Stock options

Positive team atmosphere

Meal provided

Housing subsidy

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a skilled software engineer to join our Search Architecture Team in Singapore. You will design and develop the search system architecture, ensuring stability, high availability, and scalable performance for TikTok Search.

You will work on online services, offline data flow, and ML-driven optimization, collaborating with engineers and HW teams to deliver core search capabilities, improve throughput, reduce costs, and enable high concurrency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 1+ year experience building scalable systems.
• Programming languages include C, C++, Java, or Golang; C++ is a plus.
• Strong design and coding skills; eager for technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the search system architecture for TikTok Search.
• Improve online services and data flow performance; reduce costs.
• Support architecture abstraction and optimization for large-scale ML.
• Ensure high concurrency and throughput; improve stability.
• Research and implement new technologies.

Skills

C/C++

Java

Golang

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

TikTok is seeking a skilled software engineer to join our Search Architecture Team in Singapore. You will design and develop the search system architecture, ensuring stability, high availability, and scalable performance for TikTok Search.

You will work on online services, offline data flow, and ML-driven optimization, collaborating with engineers and HW teams to deliver core search capabilities, improve throughput, reduce costs, and enable high concurrency.