Tech Lead, TikTok Recommendation Developer Infrastructure - Singapore

tiktok pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Singapore is seeking a senior software architect for the Recommendation Architecture Team. You will design high‑performance, scalable architecture for our recommendation system and ensure reliability as the user base grows.

You will build an analysis platform to support product teams, diagnose issues, optimize weak links, and promote reusable foundations to accelerate rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or related field with at least 5 years of experience building scalable systems.
• Experience with programming languages C, C++, Java or Golang.
• Strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-performance, highly available, and flexible architecture design for the recommendation system.
• Build a recommendation system analysis platform to support problem analysis and debugging.
• Identify bottlenecks, improve system stability, and promote reusable architecture foundations.

Skills

C

C++

Java

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About TikTok

TikTok will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require TikTok sponsorship of a visa.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.

About the team

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users. Due to the big system scale and large engineering community that covers multiple Recommendation products, we invest heavily in the developer infra area, from developer environments and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) to frameworks, libraries, and various productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-performance, highly available, and flexible architecture design, high-quality code implementation, and continuously improve engineering quality based on product and strategy requirements for complex business scenarios;
• Build a recommendation system analysis platform to provide product-level tool support for problem analysis and debugging;
• Thoroughly comb through existing business systems, identify and optimize weak links in the system, improve the overall architecture quality, service performance, and stability of the system;
• Abstract and precipitate common business architecture based on actual business conditions, improve the degree of basic capability reuse, and better support business rapid iteration.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science, or related fields, with at least 5 years of experience building scalable systems;
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang;
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive;

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced in at least one area of the following areas: personalized recommendations, search engine, machine learning, distributed storage system, big data frameworks is a plus.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.