Real-Time Media Systems Engineer

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a highly skilled infrastructure engineer to join the Media Network team in San Jose, CA. This role focuses on large-scale distributed systems for real-time media, ensuring stability, cost efficiency, and high quality in streaming and RTC contexts.

You will design resilient services, optimize infrastructure costs, improve performance, and collaborate across teams to deploy robust disaster recovery and deployment procedures.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related field.
• Strong experience analyzing and optimizing complex systems with focus on cost, stability, and quality.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, C, C++, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Stability Enhancement: design resilient, decoupled systems with automated recovery and failover mechanisms.
• Cost Optimization: analyze infrastructure usage and lead initiatives to optimize resource allocation and reduce expenses.
• Quality Improvement: address issues affecting service quality, playback performance, and security.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: partner with multiple teams to align objectives and deploy standardized procedures for DR and operations.

Skills

Programming languages

Large-scale systems

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

TikTok is seeking a highly skilled infrastructure engineer to join the Media Network team in San Jose, CA. This role focuses on large-scale distributed systems for real-time media, ensuring stability, cost efficiency, and high quality in streaming and RTC contexts.

You will design resilient services, optimize infrastructure costs, improve performance, and collaborate across teams to deploy robust disaster recovery and deployment procedures.