Lead Platform Architect for Open API & Developer Platform

TikTok; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across Open Platform domains, API platforms, and developer experience. You will mentor engineers, drive scalability, reliability, and security across multi-region systems.

Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, overseeing design reviews, and aligning cross-functional teams across regions to deliver high-availability platform services for partners and developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering with ownership of system architecture for large-scale distributed systems or platform products.
• Proven experience designing and evolving service-oriented / microservice architectures, including high availability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of API architecture (REST/gRPC), authentication/authorization, rate limiting, versioning, developer experience, and platform governance.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, concurrency, caching, messaging/streaming, and multi-region resilience.
• Hands-on ability to produce high-quality technical designs and influence implementation; comfortable diving into code when needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end architecture for key Open Platform domains, including API platforms, partner integration frameworks, developer experience, and core platform services.
• Set technical strategy and architecture standards (service design, data models, API design, scalability, observability, reliability, security) across multiple teams and systems.
• Lead design reviews and align stakeholders across product engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams in multiple regions.
• Identify scalability and reliability bottlenecks; design long-term solutions for high-traffic, low-latency, globally distributed systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers; raise the bar for engineering quality, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate new technologies and guide pragmatic adoption (e.g., platform frameworks, cloud patterns, distributed data systems).
• Drive cross-team execution for large initiatives: architecture roadmap, risk management, and delivery governance.

Skills

System architecture

Microservices

API design (REST/gRPC)

Distributed systems

Security & compliance

Code review & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across Open Platform domains, API platforms, and developer experience. You will mentor engineers, drive scalability, reliability, and security across multi-region systems.

Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, overseeing design reviews, and aligning cross-functional teams across regions to deliver high-availability platform services for partners and developers worldwide.