Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Live Infrastructure
Summary
Builds and optimizes TikTok's live-streaming backend core services (rooms, users, leaderboards) across a large multi-datacenter environment. The role focuses on data consistency, scalable governance, disaster recovery, monitoring, and AI-enabled resilient data pipelines.
TikTok is seeking engineers to help build and optimize the live streaming core services that underpin our global platform. You will work across rooms, users, and leaderboards in a large multi-datacenter environment to ensure data consistency and scalable governance.
Responsibilities include designing and improving services, contributing to disaster recovery and monitoring, and driving architectural standards while exploring AI-enabled approaches for resilient data pipelines.