Backend Software Engineer, Live Streaming
Summary
Build and maintain TikTok’s global live-streaming platform, designing low-latency distributed systems for video delivery, scheduling, and persistence.
Responsibilities
Team Introduction Popular video products of ByteDance are all empowered by our cutting-edge cloud technologies. As a software engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to tackle challenges of developing large-scale distributed systems to support the low latency and high quality end to end live streaming experience on a global scale, while leveraging your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain a global scale, multi-regional live streaming platform.
- Design, implement and operate our critical and scalable services ranging from video delivery services, live scheduling services, and core persistence layer.
- Build live streaming platforms, systems, and infrastructure with knowledge in network and distributed systems.
- Ensure service & system quality by building testing framework and creating automation tests.
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews for the live streaming infrastructure team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- Good programming experience with at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with Unix/Linux operating systems.
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL databases, Memcache/Redis.
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with video processing and delivery technology will be considered as a bonus.