DevOps Engineer, TikTok Applied Machine Learning

OpenTalent; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok's Applied Machine Learning (AML) team develops massively distributed recommendation systems worldwide. You will sharpen your skills in coding, performance analysis, and large system operation, while influencing hardware/capacity decisions.

You'll collaborate with DevOps to ensure high availability, create automated pipelines, and integrate software with hardware. A CS degree and Python/C++ proficiency are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Python or C/C++.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Bash.
• Experience building solutions with cloud services (AWS, Google, Azure, AliCloud).
• Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Strong basics in algorithms and data structures.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Update software, enhance existing software capabilities, and develop and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Large-scale systems

Unix/Linux

Python

C/C++

DevOps

Automation

Algorithms and data structures

Code optimization

Machine learning frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Salt

Bash Scripting

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

AliCloud

Job description

About The Team

The Applied Machine Learning (AML) team combines system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and run massively distributed recommendation systems around the world. On this team, you'll have the opportunity to sharpen your expertise in coding, performance analysis, and large system operation, and get heavily involved in the process of hardware/capacity decision-making. DevOps ensures that the very centric machine learning services at TikTok have the highest level of availability, as well as creating highly automated systems and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Proven experience in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Prior experience designing and maintaining large-scale systems.
• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python or C/C++.
• Expertise in DevOps technologies like Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Bash Scripting, etc.
• Experience in building solutions with AWS, Google, Azure, AliCloud or other cloud services.
• Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of code optimizing and routine tasks automation.
• Proficiency in at least one machine learning framework: TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet or PaddlePaddle.
• Solid background of algorithms and data structures.